Archosargus rhomboidalis
Sea Bream
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Actinopterygii (Ray-finned Fishes)
Perciformes (Perciformes, Also Called the Acanthopteri)
Sparidae (Porgies)
Archosargus
Archosargus rhomboidalis (Sea Bream)
Description
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Characters
Small procumbent spine preceding dorsal fin, very stout and long second anal fin spine, dorsal profile of head slightly convex to straight, posterior naris long and slitlike, four anterior teeth in jaws broad and incisor-like, lateral teeth molariform and arranged in three rows in upper jaw and two rows in lower jaw, arched grooves on upper and lower lips, gill rakers on first arch number eight or nine on lower limb, measurements: head length 27%–32%, snout length 10%–13%, eye diameter 6%–9%, suborbital depth 6%–7%, pectoral fin length 34%–42%, second anal fin spine length 14%–18%, body depth 46%–51%, caudal peduncle depth about 12%, pectoral fin has 14 or 15 rays, dorsal fin has 13 or 14 (rarely 12) spines and 10 or 11 rays, anal fin has 10 or 11 rays, lateral line scales number 46 to 53
Silvery olivaceous with golden yellow stripes and blackish spot about size of eye near origin of lateral line
Distribution
Western Atlantic from New Jersey to Brazil, including the northeastern and southern Gulf of Mexico and the Antilles
Habitat Associations
Coast, estuaries, brackish water, associated with muddy bottoms, mangrove habitats, and coral reefs near mangroves
Muddy bottoms, mangrove habitats, and coral reefs near mangroves
Biology
Benthic mollusks, crustaceans, and plant material
Maximum known size is 320 mm TL
Commonly found over mud bottoms in mangrove sloughs and on vegetated sand bottoms, sometimes in brackish water and occasionally also in coral reef areas near mangroves. Feeds on benthic invertebrates (small bivalves, crustaceans), as well as on plant material.
Reproductive mode: dioecism; fertilization: external; nonguarders (open water/substratum egg scatterers); parental care: none.
IUCN Red List Status: Least Concern (LC), assessed 2011-03-30. Resilience: High (K=1.27; tm=0.4; tmax=2).
Commercial or Environmental Importance
Fisheries: commercial.
References
Randall 1968a
Randall 1994
Robins and Ray 1986
Cervigón 1993b
Schaldach et al. 1997
Smith 1997
Carpenter 2002b
Randall, J.E. (1967) Food habits of reef fishes of the West Indies. Stud. Trop. Oceanogr. Miami 5:665-847.
Opitz, S. (1989) pers. comm. missing.
Chavance, P., A. Yañez-Arancibia, D. Flores-Hernández, A.L. Lara-Domínguez and F.A. Linares (1986) Ecology, biology and population dynamics of Archosargus rhomboidalis (Pisces, Sparidae) in a tropical coastal lagoon system, southern Gulf of Mexico. An. Inst. Cienc. Mar Limnol. Univ. Nac. Auton. Mex.13(2):11-30.
Robins, C.R. and G.C. Ray (1986) A field guide to Atlantic coast fishes of North America. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, U.S.A. 354 p.
Randall, J.E. (1996) Caribbean reef fishes. Third Edition - revised and enlarged. T.F.H. Publications, Inc. Ltd., Hong Kong. 3nd ed. 368 p.
Smith, C.L. (1997) National Audubon Society field guide to tropical marine fishes of the Caribbean, the Gulf of Mexico, Florida, the Bahamas, and Bermuda. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York. 720 p.
Russell, B., K.E. Carpenter, T. MacDonald and M. Vega-Cendejas (2014) Archosargus rhomboidalis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2014: e.T170156A1283528. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T170156A1283528.en. Downloaded on 17 July 2017.
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