Species: Micropogonias ectenes, Slender croaker
Micropogonias ectenes (Jordan & Gilbert, 1882)
Slender croaker
Body elongate, moderately compressed; prominent snout; eye medium sized (16-22% of head length); mouth small, under snout, lips thin; teeth simple, no canines, outer row teeth of upper jaw slightly enlarged; 4 inconspicuous barbels along inner side of lower jaw; margin of preopercle strongly serrated, spines at the angle; gill rakers 22-24; dorsal rays X + I, 23-26, first dorsal at most barely reaching origin of second dorsal fin when depressed; anal rays II, 7-8, 2nd spine robust, ~ ¾ length of 1st anal ray; tail margin a short, blunt point, upper lobe slightly concave; scales large, rough on body and nape, smooth on breast and cheek; pored lateral-line scales 51-54; soft dorsal and anal fins without scales.
Color silvery grey with brassy hue; upper sides with 10-12 thin dark oblique bars extending upward and backwards along scale rows; fins yellowish, spinous dorsal fin with blackish outer margin.
Size: grows to about 40 cm.
Inhabits coastal waters.
Depth: 1-33 m.
Southern Baja, the central Gulf of California to Acapulco.
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- Salinity
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- Marine
- Brackish
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore Only
- Inshore
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom
- Near Bottom
- Bottom + water column
- Habitat
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- Estuary
- Beach
- Soft bottom only
- Sand & gravel
- Water column
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- FishBase Habitat
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- Demersal
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- Data
- Diet
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- Data
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Mobile benthic worms
- Mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves
- Egg Type
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- Pelagic larva
- No data
- Pelagic
- Global Endemism
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- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic
- East Pacific endemic
- All species
- Regional Endemism
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- Continent only
- TEP endemic
- Continent
- Cortez + Mexican provinces endemic
- All species
- Continental TEP endemic
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Northern Tropical (Mexican Province to Nicaragua + Revillagigedos)
- North Temperate (Californian Province &/or Northern Gulf of California)
- Northern Subtropical (Cortez Province + Sinaloan Gap)
- IUCN Red List
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- Least concern
- Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 40
- Depth Range Min
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- 1
- Depth Range Max
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- 33
