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Sciaena

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Noun1.Sciaena - type genus of the Sciaenidae: croakersSciaena - type genus of the Sciaenidae: croakers
genus Sciaena
fish genus - any of various genus of fish
family Sciaenidae, Sciaenidae - warm-water marine fishes including the drums and grunts and croakers and sea trout
jewfish, mulloway, Sciaena antarctica - large important food fish of Australia; almost indistinguishable from the maigre
maiger, maigre, Sciaena aquila - large European marine food fish
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He noted that the saccular otoliths of Totoaba have a combination of plesiomorphic characters similar to other sciaenid groups such as the Sciaena, Pogonias, or Bahaba groups and considered that within the Cynoscion Group, the otoliths were most similar to Atractoscion Gill 1862.
First fossil record of Totoaba Villamar 1980 (Teleostei: Sciaenidae) ... by Huddleston, Richard W.; Takeuchi, Gary T. / Bulletin (Southern California Academy of Sciences)
Mulloway, Sciaena antarctica, are found in rivers up to and beyond the tidal limit; when schooling they congregate near estuary mouths and pass beyond into the surf zone of coastal beaches (Roughley 1961: 70).
Fishing in Port Jackson, New South Wales - more than met the eye by Attenbrow, Val; Steele, Dominic / Antiquity
 
 
 
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