Kingdom Animalia Suborder Percoidei Mass Common snook: 13 kg Higher classification Percoidea | Order Perciformes Scientific name Centropomidae Phylum Chordata Rank Family | |
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Genus Centropomus
Lacépède, 1802 Similar Common snook, Lates, Perciformes, Centropomus parallelus, European seabass | ||
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Centropomidae is a family of freshwater and marine fishes in the Perciformes. The sole genus in the family is Centropomus, known commonly as the snooks or robalos. Prior to 2004, three other genera were placed in Centropomidae in subfamily Latinae, which has since been raised to the family level and renamed Latidae because a cladistic analysis showed the old Centropomidae to be paraphyletic, leaving Centropomus as the only remaining genus in this family. These are popular game and food fishes.
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Dating from the upper Cretaceous, the centropomids are of typical percoid shape, distinguished by having two-part dorsal fins, a lateral line that extends onto the tail, and, frequently, a concave shape to the head. They range from 35 to 120 cm (14 to 47 in) in length and are found in tropical and subtropical waters.
Margarita robalos y sabalos tarpon and snook venezuela
Species
The currently recognized species in this genus are:
