brown meagre

Sciaena umbra

Seventy Centimeters Sciaenid Fish of the Mediterranean Sea

brown meagre is known from Eastern Atlantic as a marine fish. It occurs in marine waters.

Class: Teleosts
Order: Surgeonfishes and Allies
Family: Sciaenidae
Genus: Sciaena
Maximum length: 70 cm
Body shape: fusiform
Distribution: Eastern Atlantic: Southern Bay of Biscay to Mauritania, occasionally southwards to Senegal. Also throughout the Mediterranean and Black seas. Records from Ghana (Ref. 6810 ) and Gabon (Ref. 5516 ) are questionable. Two records in Belgium were actually for Micropogonias undulatus (Linnaeus, 1766) (Ref. 117298 ). The record off Wimereux is a misinterpretation during data entry mistake from the the Müller (2004, Ref. YYY) (Bailly, pers. comm., March 2018).
Conservation status: NTNear Threatened

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