Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Sciaenidae > Argyrosomus > Argyrosomus japonicus

Argyrosomus japonicus (jaapanese croaker; Southern meagre; Soapy; Soapies; Silver jewfish; Silver jew; Silver croaker; Schoolies; School jew; River kingfish; Mulloway; Kob; Kingy; Kingfish; Jewfish; Jew; Japanese meagre; Butterfish; Croaker)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Argyrosomus japonicus is a silvery to bronze-green colored fish, a member of the Sciaenidae family, which may grow up to 2 m (6 ft 7 in) in length. It is known as mulloway or jewfish in Australia and dusky kob in South Africa. The name jewfish refers to the large earstones, which are prized as "jewels" by some fishers.
View Wikipedia Record: Argyrosomus japonicus

Endangered Species

Status: Endangered
View IUCN Record: Argyrosomus japonicus

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  90.941 lbs (41.25 kg)
Maximum Longevity [3]  30 years
Migration [2]  Oceano-estuarine

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♦ 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
♦ 2Myers, 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
♦ 3Frimpong, 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.
♦ 4Fish diets and food webs in the Swan–Canning estuary, River Science July 2009, Department of Water, Government of Western Australia
♦ 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.
♦ 6Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 7Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
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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