Dogteeth Weakfish

Macrodon is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Sciaenidae, the drums and croakers. These fishes are found in the eastern Pacific and western Atlantic Oceans. Taxonomy Macrodon was first proposed as a genus by the Swiss physician and naturalist Heinrich Rudolf Schinz with Lonchurus ancylodon, a species described in 1801 by Marcus Elieser Bloch and Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider from Surinam, as its type species.

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Macrodon mordax es una especie de pez de la familia Sciaenidae en el orden de los Perciformes. Morfología • Los machos pueden llegar alcanzar los 50 cm de longitud total. ​​ Alimentación Come crustáceos, peces y cefalópodos.