Species: Corvula sanctaeluciae, Striped Croaker

gill rakers 23-25
preoperculum thin, ~smooth
Corvula sanctaeluciae Jordan, 1890
Striped Croaker
Body short, oblong, compressed; head short, cavernous but not spongy on top; eye moderate size (¼ of head length); mouth moderate in size, slightly oblique, opens at front; jaw teeth small, conical, in bands; chin without barbels, with 5 pores; gill rakers 23-25, long and slender; margin of peropercle thin, nearly smooth; top corner of gill opening notched; dorsal rays X-XI+I, 21-24; anal rays II, 9, second spine moderately strong, 28-31% head length, a bit less than 2/3 length of first soft ray; tail with round to straight edge; scales smooth on head, rough on body; basal 1/2 of dorsal and anal scaled; the lateral line extends to the center of the end of the tail fin.
Grey to blue-grey on back, silvery below; sides with faint stripes, oblique above lateral line and longitudinal below; fins pale, yellowish, a faint dark spot at pectoral origin.
Maximum size 26 cm.
Inhabits muddy and sandy bottoms inshore; juveniles also in rocky areas.
Depth: 1-35 m.
Florida to Guyana, also in Brazil.

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- Salinity
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- Marine
- Marine Only
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore
- Inshore Only
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom
- Habitat
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- Sand & gravel
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- Soft bottom only
- Mud
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- FishBase Habitat
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- Demersal
- Reef Associated
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
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- Diet
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- Data
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
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- Data
- Pelagic
- Pelagic larva
- Global Endemism
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- All species
- Greater Caribbean non-endemic
- West Atlantic Endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- Also in Brazil
- Continent
- Continent + Island (s)
- Extends South of GC
- GC non-endemic
- Island (s)
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- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Equatorial (0-10N, Costa Rica / Venezuela)
- Subtropical (23-35N, Florida / Carolinas / Bermuda)
- Tropical (10-23N, Nicaragua / Cuba)
- IUCN Red List
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- Least concern
- Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 26
- Depth Range Min
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- 1
- Depth Range Max
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- 35