Menticirrhus saxatilis, Northern kingfish : fisheries, gamefish

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Menticirrhus saxatilis (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)

Northern kingfish
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> Eupercaria/misc (Various families in series Eupercaria) > Sciaenidae (Drums or croakers)
Etymology: Menticirrhus: Latin, mentum = beard, chin + Latin, cirrus = curly.
More on authors: Bloch & Schneider.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / distribuzione batimetrica / distribution range Ecologia

marino; salmastro demersale; distribuzione batimetrica 10 - ? m. Subtropical; 43°N - 11°S

Distribuzione Stati | Aree FAO | Ecosystems | Presenze | Mappa dei ritrovamenti | Introduzioni | Faunafri

Western Atlantic: Massachusetts to southern Florida in USA and Gulf of Mexico to Yucatan in Mexico.

Length at first maturity / Size / Peso / Age

Maturità: Lm 25.6  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 46.0 cm TL maschio/sesso non determinato; (Ref. 7251); common length : 30.0 cm TL maschio/sesso non determinato; (Ref. 3702); peso massimo pubblicato: 1.1 kg (Ref. 40637); Età massima riportata: 4 anni (Ref. 127588)

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Body shape (shape guide): fusiform / normal.

Biologia     Glossario (es. epibenthic)

Adults occur usually in shallow coastal waters over sand to sandy mud bottoms. Common in the surf zone and in estuaries. Juveniles may enter tidal rivers and creeks of low salinity. Feed mainly on worms and crustaceans. An excellent food fish.

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturità | Riproduzione | Deposizione | Uova | Fecundity | Larve

Main reference Upload your references | Bibliografia | Coordinatore | Collaboratori

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. (Ref. 7251)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-1)

  Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 23 January 2020

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





Human uses

Pesca: scarso interesse commerciale; Pesce da pesca sportiva: si
FAO - pesca: landings; Publication: search | FishSource | Sea Around Us

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Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Fonte Biblio. 123201): 11.2 - 27.6, mean 24.2 °C (based on 232 cells).
Phylogenetic diversity index (Fonte Biblio. 82804):  PD50 = 0.5020   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00794 (0.00515 - 0.01226), b=3.04 (2.92 - 3.16), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this species & (Sub)family-body (Ref. 93245).
Trophic level (Fonte Biblio. 69278):  3.6   ±0.5 se; based on diet studies.
Generation time: 2.0 ( na - na) years. Estimated as median ln(3)/K based on 2 growth studies.
Resilienza (Fonte Biblio. 120179):  Alto, tempo minimo di raddoppiamento della popolazione meno di 15 mesi (K=0.5).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153):  Low to moderate vulnerability (26 of 100). 🛈
Climate Vulnerability (Ref. 125649):  Moderate vulnerability (43 of 100). 🛈
Price category (Ref. 80766):   Medium.
Nutrients (Ref. 124155):  Calcium = 98 [55, 187] mg/100g; Iron = 1.1 [0.6, 1.9] mg/100g; Protein = 21.4 [19.4, 23.7] %; Omega3 = 0.334 [0.195, 0.554] g/100g; Selenium = 21.8 [11.5, 42.6] μg/100g; VitaminA = 9.35 [3.35, 31.47] μg/100g; Zinc = 0.851 [0.609, 1.240] mg/100g (wet weight);