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Sciaenidae
hardhead
Micropogonias undulatus
Sciaenid Fish from One Hundred Meters
- Tropical
- Regional distribution
- Atlantic Ocean
- Central America and the Caribbean
- North America
- South America
- Fusiform
- Large
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Regional distribution
Atlantic Ocean
Fusiform
Largehardhead is known from Western Atlantic as a fish. It occurs in estuaries and brackish water.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Sciaenidae
- Genus
- Micropogonias
- Maximum length
- 55 cm
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Western Atlantic: Massachusetts, USA (excluding Florida) and northern Gulf of Mexico to northern Mexico. Possibly from southern Brazil to Argentina. Uncertain in southern Gulf of Mexico, Lesser Antilles and southern Caribbean (Ref. 26938 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
