Blackbar drum

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Blackbar drum

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Acanthuriformes
Family: Sciaenidae
Genus: Pareques
Species:
P. iwamotoi
Binomial name
Pareques iwamotoi
Miller & Woods, 1988
Synonyms[2]
  • Equetus iwamotoi (Miller & Woods, 1988)

The blackbar drum (Pareques iwamotoi) is a

ray-finned fish belonging to the genus Pareques in the family Sciaenidae
, the drums and croakers. It is found in the western Atlantic Ocean.

Taxonomy

The blackbar drum was first formally

type locality given as at a depth of 101 metres (331 feet) at Oregon Station 698 (30°03′36″N 86°55′36″W / 30.06000°N 86.92667°W / 30.06000; -86.92667) south of Pensacola, Florida, in the United States.[3] The genus Pareques is included in the subfamily Sciaeninae by some authors,[4] but the 5th edition of Fishes of the World does not recognise subfamilies within Sciaenidae, which it places in the order Acanthuriformes.[5]

Etymology

The blackbar drum's specific name honors Tomio Iwamoto of the California Academy of Sciences, who Miller and Woods described as a "good friend" and who participated in the expedition on which the type specimen was collected.[6]

Description

The blackbar drum has a deep, rhomboid body with an arched dorsal profile. The head is low, with a moderately large eye and a snout protruding beyond the mouth, with a notched upper jaw which encloses the lower jaw. The

total length of 20 centimetres (7.9 inches). The overall color is gray with a wide black bar running from the dorsal fin to the pelvic fin and a thinner dark stripe running horizontally along the flank. The fins are dark. Juveniles are whiter in color with a slender black bar down the middle of the snout and another between the eyes with the same stripes on the body as the adults.[7] As individuals grow larger the pattern of stripes on the body becomes less distinct.[2]

Distribution and habitat

The blackbar drum is found in the western Atlantic Ocean from North Carolina south into the Gulf of Mexico, although it is absent from Cuba, and along the Caribbean coast of Central and northern South America from southern Nicaragua to the Orinoco Delta in Venezuela. It is found at depths between 37 and 184 metres (121 and 604 ft), although young fish may be found in much shallower waters. In the Gulf of Mexico, the habitat of this fish is shallow, coastal waters over sandy, muddy or rocky substrates.[1]

References

  1. ^
    doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-2.RLTS.T16749758A86421242.en
    . Retrieved 20 June 2023.
  2. ^ a b Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2023). "Pareques iwamotoi" in FishBase. April 2023 version.
  3. ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Pareques". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 20 June 2023.
  4. ^ Kunio Sasaki (1989). "Phylogeny of the family Sciaenidae, with notes on its Zoogeography (Teleostei, Peciformes)" (PDF). Memoirs of the Faculty of Fishes Hokkaido University. 36 (1–2): 1–137.
  5. ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6. Archived from the original
    on 2019-04-08. Retrieved 2023-06-20.
  6. ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara, eds. (9 March 2023). "Series Eupercaria (Incertae sedis): Families Callanthidae, Centrogenyidae, Dinopercidae, Emmelichthyidae, Malacanthidae, Monodactylidae, Moronidae, Parascorpididae, Sciaenidae and Sillagidae". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 20 June 2023.
  7. ^ "Species: Pareques iwamotoi, Blackbar Drum, Gulf Cubbyu". Shorefishes of the Greater Caribbean online information system. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Retrieved 20 June 2023.
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