Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Sciaenidae > Menticirrhus > Menticirrhus americanus

Menticirrhus americanus (Woundhead; Southern kingwhiting; Southern kingfish; Southern kingcroaker; Southern king whiting; Southamerican kingcroaker; Sea smelt; Sea mullet; Sea mink; Sand whiting; Kingfish; Carolina whiting)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Menticirrhus americanus, the southern kingfish, southern kingcroaker, the king whiting, the Carolina whiting, or the sea mullet, is a species of marine fish in the family Sciaenidae. It lives in shallow coastal waters on the western fringes of the Atlantic Ocean.
View Wikipedia Record: Menticirrhus americanus

Attributes

Migration [1]  Migratory

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Central Gulf Coastal Plain Biosphere Reserve 40530 United States  
Everglades and Dry Tortugas Biosphere Reserve   Florida, United States  
Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary IV 2387149 Florida, United States
Parque Atlantico Mar Chiquita Nature Reserve VI 706059 Cordoba, Argentina  

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Carcharhinus porosus (Small-tailed shark)[2]

Consumers

External References

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Citations

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♦ 1Riede, Klaus (2004) Global Register of Migratory Species - from Global to Regional Scales. Final Report of the R&D-Projekt 808 05 081. 330 pages + CD-ROM
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 3Food of Northwest Atlantic Fishes and Two Common Species of Squid, Ray E. Bowman, Charles E. Stillwell, William L. Michaels, and Marvin D. Grosslein, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-NE-155 (2000)
♦ 4Variação sazonal e mudanças ontogênicas na dieta de Menticirrhus americanus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Teleostei, Sciaenidae) na baía de Ubatuba-Enseada, Santa Catarina, Brasil, CAROLINA F. HALUCH, MATHEUS O. FREITAS, MARCO F. M. CORRÊA, VINÍCIUS ABILHOA, Pan-American Journal of Aquatic Sciences (2009), 4(3): 347-356
♦ 5Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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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