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Sciaenops ocellatus (Spotted bass; Redfish; Red drum; Drum; Channel bass)

Synonyms: Lutjanus triangulum; Perca ocellata; Sciaenops ocellata
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Wikipedia Abstract

The red drum (Sciaenops ocellatus), also known as channel bass, redfish, spottail bass or simply reds, is a game fish that is found in the Atlantic Ocean from Massachusetts to Florida and in the Gulf of Mexico from Florida to Northern Mexico. It is the only species in the genus Sciaenops. The red drum is a cousin to the black drum (Pogonias cromis), and the two species are often found in close proximity to each other; they can interbreed and form a robust hybrid, and younger fish are often indistinguishable in flavor.
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  54.565 lbs (24.75 kg)
Female Maturity [2]  4 years 6 months
Male Maturity [1]  3 years 6 months
Maximum Longevity [2]  50 years
Migration [3]  Oceano-estuarine

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
East Texas Gulf United States Nearctic Temperate Coastal Rivers    
Pecos United States Nearctic Xeric Freshwaters and Endorheic Basins    
Sabine - Galveston United States Nearctic Temperate Coastal Rivers    
US Southern Plains United States Nearctic Temperate Upland Rivers    

Protected Areas

Ecosystems

Emblem of

North Carolina

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Consumers

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 2Frimpong, E.A., and P. L. Angermeier. 2009. FishTraits: a database of ecological and life-history traits of freshwater fishes of the United States. Fisheries 34:487-495.
♦ 3Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 4Food of the Red Drum, Sciaenops ocellata, from Mississippi Sound, Robin M. Overstreet, Richard W. Heard, Gulf Research Reports, Vol. 6, No. 2, 131-135, 1978
♦ 5Jorrit 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.
♦ 6Cirtwill, Alyssa R.; Eklöf, Anna (2018), Data from: Feeding environment and other traits shape species' roles in marine food webs, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.1mv20r6
♦ 7Feeding Habits of Red Drum (Sciaenops ocellatus) in Galveston Bay, Texas: Seasonal Diet Variation and Predator-Prey Size Relationships, FREDERICK S. SCHARF & KURTIS K. SCHLICHT, Estuaries Vol. 23, No. 1, p. 128–139 February 2000
♦ 8Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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