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Sciaenidae
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Sciaenidae is a family of ray-finned fishes belonging to the order Acanthuriformes. They are commonly called drums or croakers in reference to the repetitive throbbing or drumming sounds they make. The family consists of about 293 to 298 species in about 66 or 67 genera.
Species
drums or croakers
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderPerciformes
- FamilySciaenidae
荷属安的列斯群岛博内尔岛的幼年斑点石首鱼 成年和幼年斑点石首鱼，St. Kitts 石首鱼科（学名：Sciaenidae）又名硬头鱼、鯼（音同“棕”），為輻鰭魚綱鱸形目的其中一科。
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 3,956
- With media
- 107
- Family
- Sciaenidae
- Collections
- SDNHM, ECOSUR, FCB-UANL, USNM
- Recorded in
- United States, Mexico
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Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- Taxonomy
- Genera
- Fossil genera
- Etymology
- Characteristics
- Fisheries
- Croaking mechanism
- Croaking in communication
- Timeline of genera
- References
- Further reading
Sciaenidae is a family of ray-finned fishes belonging to the order Acanthuriformes. They are commonly called drums or croakers in reference to the repetitive throbbing or drumming sounds they make. The family consists of about 293 to 298 species in about 66 or 67 genera.
==Taxonomy== Sciaenidae was first proposed as a family in 1829 by the French zoologist Georges Cuvier. The 5th edition of Fishes of the World classifies the family in the suborder Sciaenoidei, alongside the rover family Emmelichthyidae, in the order Acanthuriformes. Other authorities classify the Sciaenidae and the Emmelichthyidae as incertae sedis within the series Eupercaria. The Catalog of Fishes retains this family within the Acanthuriformes but does not recognise the suborder Sciaenoidei.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sciaenidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.