Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Sciaenidae

Sciaenidae (croakers, drums, and roncadores) with Relationships

Synonyms: Sciaeniddae

Wikipedia Abstract

Sciaenidae is the family of fish commonly called drums or croakers in reference to the repetitive throbbing or drumming sounds they make. The family includes the weakfish, and consists of about 275 species in about 70 genera; it belongs to the order Perciformes.
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Genus

Aplodinotus (freshwater drums, river drums, and thunderpumpers) (1)
Argyrosomus (6)
Atractoscion (Sea bass) (2)
Atrobucca (Drum) (2)
Bairdiella (mademoiselle and striped croakers) (3)
Cheilotrema (Croaker) (1)
Cilus (Croaker) (1)
Collichthys (Croaker) (2)
Ctenosciaena (Barbel drum) (1)
Cynoscion (sea trout, seatrouts, and weak fishes) (15)
Dendrophysa (Croaker) (1)
Equetus (ribbonfishes) (2)
Genyonemus (Croaker) (1)
Isopisthus (Croaker) (2)
Johnius (maigres) (8)
Larimichthys (Croaker) (2)
Larimus (2)
Leiostomus (spots) (1)
Macrodon (1)
Menticirrhus (kingfishes and weakfishes) (7)
Micropogonias (finebarbel croakers) (4)
Miichthys (Croaker) (1)
Nebris (Croaker) (1)
Nibea (Croaker) (4)
Odontoscion (Croaker) (1)
Ophioscion (Croaker) (1)
Otolithes (Croaker) (2)
Otolithoides (Croaker) (2)
Panna (Croaker) (2)
Paralonchurus (Croaker) (2)
Pareques (Croaker) (2)
Pennahia (Croaker) (3)
Pentheroscion (Croaker) (1)
Plagioscion (Croaker) (1)
Pogonias (1)
Protonibea (Croaker) (1)
Protosciaena (1)
Pseudotolithus (Croaker) (4)
Pteroscion (Drum) (1)
Roncador (Croaker) (1)
Sciaena (black drums) (2)
Sciaenops (red drums) (1)
Seriphus (1)
Stellifer (Stardrum) (7)
Umbrina (croakers and roncadores) (9)

(...) = Species count

External References

Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0