Micropogonias (Noun)
Meaning
Croakers.
Classification
Nouns denoting animals.
Examples
- Micropogonias undulatus, also known as the Atlantic croaker, is a fish native to the western Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico.
- The Atlantic croaker belongs to the genus Micropogonias, a group of marine fish commonly referred to as croakers.
- Micropogonias megalops or the Southern kingfish is found in the western Atlantic from North Carolina to the Gulf of Mexico.
- Micropogonias undulatus or the spotted seatrout and the Atlantic croaker have the particular swimming capacities which aid in predation when competing for forage with larger more powerful fish.
- Micropogonias furnieri is a species of fish in the family Sciaenidae, commonly known as the whitemouth croaker.