Yelloweye croaker (Odontoscion xanthops)

Scientific name: Odontoscion xanthops Gilbert, 1898

Yelloweye croaker (Odontoscion xanthops)

The Yelloweye croaker (Odontoscion xanthops) is a brackish-water fish of the family Sciaenidae. Native range: Eastern Pacific, Gulf of California to Peru.

Biology

Body elongate and moderately compressed; snout prominent; lower jaw slightly prominent, with one pair of larger canine teeth; remaining teeth set in narrow bands; edge of preopercle slightly serrate; lower branch of first gill arch with 14 to 16 gill rakers; body silvery; back metallic blue; flanks striped, sometimes indistinctly; fins pale with dark tips.

Source: FishBase, licensed CC BY-NC 4.0.

Species facts

Scientific name
Odontoscion xanthops
Family
Sciaenidae (Drums or croakers)
Order
Perciformes (Perch-like fish)
Class
Actinopterygii (Ray-finned fishes)
Maximum length
30.0
Common length
20.0
Environment
Marine; brackish; pelagic-neritic
Climate
Tropical
Distribution
Eastern Pacific: Gulf of California to Peru.
Conservation status (IUCN)
Least Concern (LC)
Threat to humans
Harmless
Uses
Fisheries:
Resilience
High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months (Preliminary K or Fecundity.)

Sources

Taxonomy, distribution and biology data: FishBase (Froese, R. and D. Pauly, eds.), licensed CC BY-NC 4.0.

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