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Macrodon ancylodon, King weakfish : fisheries

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Macrodon ancylodon (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)

King weakfish
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Brazil country information

Common names: Aratã, Arauja, Cambucu
Occurrence: native
Salinity: brackish
Abundance: | Ref:
Importance: commercial | Ref: Barreto, T.M.R.R., K.M.F. Freire, J.J.C. Reis-Júnior, L.C. Rosa, A. Carvalho-Filho and M.M. Rotundo, 2018
Aquaculture: | Ref:
Regulations: | Ref:
Uses: no uses
Comments: Reported to be commercially important in the Brazilian states of Amapá, Maranhão and Pará. Stock evaluations of this species based in recruitment yield model-based and Thompson and Bell’s predictive models in the period from 1997 to 2000, in Pará and Maranhão, Brazil’s north coast, indicate that the species is over-exploited or in the maximum limit of exploitation (Ref. 88197). Caught by shrimp trawl in Pirambu, Sergipe (Ref. 118626). Also in Ref. 122009.
National Checklist:
Country Information: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/br.html
National Fisheries Authority:
Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Chao, L.N., 1978
National Database:

Common names from other countries

Acoupa chasseur, Pescadilla real, Rock salmon, ... more

Classificação / Names Nomes comuns | Sinónimos | Catalog of Fishes(Género, Espécies) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

> Eupercaria/misc (Various families in series Eupercaria) > Sciaenidae (Drums or croakers)
Etymology: Macrodon: Greek, makros = great + Greek, odon ) teeth (Ref. 45335).
More on authors: Bloch & Schneider.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecologia

marinhas; estuarina demersal; intervalo de profundidade 0 - 60 m (Ref. 3702), usually ? - 25 m (Ref. 9626).   Subtropical; 11°N - 40°S

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