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Whitemouth Croaker
Cláudio D. Timm, CC BY 4.0, via iNaturalist

Other fish (coast and sea)

Whitemouth Croaker

Micropogonias furnieri (Desmarest, 1823)

LC Least Concern

Names

EnglishWhitemouth Croaker
Dutch—
SpanishChano rayado
Chinese弗氏绒须石首鱼
Scientific nameMicropogonias furnieri (Desmarest, 1823)

About this species

Micropogonias furnieri, the whitemouth croaker, golden croaker, hardhead, mangrove snapper, rocando ronco, two-belly bashaw, West Indian croaker, West Indian drum or whitemouth drummer, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Sciaenidae, the drums and croakers. This fish is found in the western Atlantic Ocean.

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Classification

KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
OrderPerciformes
FamilySciaenidae
GenusMicropogonias

In Suriname

19Records in Suriname
1957First record
2013Latest record

Where it has been recorded

  • Brokopondo1

Districts with at least one record that has coordinates. Shaded districts have records.

Records by month

All years combined.

Sources & credits

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