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Argentine Croaker

Umbrina canosai

Classification

Umbrina is a genus of fish from the croaker family Sciaenidae. The genus contains 17 species occurring in tropical and warm temperate waters of the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, the Western Indian Ocean and the eastern Pacific. Taxonomy Umbrina was first proposed as a genus in 1817 by the French zoologist Georges Cuvier as a monospecific genus with its only species being Sciaena cirrosa.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Brazil · 9Uruguay · 4