Menticirrhus elongatus (Gunther 1864)
- Dataset
- Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Actinopterygii
- order
- Perciformes
- family
- Sciaenidae
- genus
- Menticirrhus
- species
- Menticirrhus elongatus
description
Slender Kingcroaker or Slender Kingfish. To 70 cm (28 in) TL (Amezcua Linares 1996). Bahía de Ballenas (26 ° 44 ’ N, 113 ° 27 ’ W), southern Baja California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) to Paita, Peru (Chirichigno and Vélez 1998), including southern Gulf of California (Chao in Fischer et al. 1995). Depth: intertidal to 66 m (216 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Amezcua Linares 1996).