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Centropomus is a genus of predominantly marine fish comprising the family Centropomidae. The type species is Centropomus undecimalis , the common snook. Commonly known as snooks or róbalos , the Centropomus species are native to tropical and subtropical waters of the western Atlantic and eastern Pacific Oceans .
Centropomoidei is a suborder of marine and freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the class Actinopterygii, a diverse group of vertebrates characterized by their bony skeletons.
The common snook (Centropomus undecimalis) is a species of marine fish in the family Centropomidae of the order Perciformes. The common snook is also known as the sergeant fish or robalo. It was originally assigned to the sciaenid genus Sciaena; Sciaena undecimradiatus and Centropomus undecimradiatus are obsolete synonyms for the species.
Centropomus parallelus is a species of fish in the family Centropomidae, the snooks and robalos. It is known by several common names, including fat snook , smallscale fat snook , little snook , and chucumite .
This category consists of articles on genera and species in this family. Pages in category "Centropomidae" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
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The introduction of this species to Lake Victoria is one of the most cited examples of the negative effects alien species can have on ecosystems. [13] The Nile perch was introduced to Lake Victoria in East Africa in the 1950s, [14] [15] and has since been fished commercially. In 2003, Nile perch sales to the EU reached 169 million euros.
Vellitor was first proposed as a genus in 1904 by the American ichthyologists David Starr Jordan and Edwin Chapin Starks with Podabrus centropomus, which had been described by Sir John Richardson in 1848 from Quelpart in the Korea Strait, [2] as its type species. [1]