Pogonias

Classification

Genus: Pogonias
Family: Sciaenidae - Drums
Order: Acanthuriformes - Surgeonfishes
Class: Teleostei - Ray-finned fishes
Superclass: Osteichthyes - Bony fishes

Description

Pogonias is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family Sciaenidae. It was formerly believed to be a monotypic genus only containing the black drum, but a second species was re-described in 2019.

Pogonias courbina (Lacepède, 1803)
Pogonias cromis (Linnaeus, 1766)

Species

Black drum
(Pogonias cromis)

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