Endangered
Argyrosomus japonicus
Argyrosomus japonicus
Argyrosomus japonicus is a silvery to bronze-green colored saltwater fish of the family Sciaenidae, that may grow up to 2 m (6 ft 7 in) in length and weigh up to 82 kg (181 lb).
Appearance
It has a copper-colored head and is silvery with a bronze-green dorsal surface and paler belly. It has a row of distinctive white spots running along the lateral line. The caudal fin is angular in juveniles but becomes more rounded in larger fish.
Argyrosomus japonicus is a silvery to bronze-green colored saltwater fish of the family Sciaenidae, that may grow up to 2 m (6 ft 7 in) in length and weigh up to 82 kg (181 lb).
Range and habitat
Argyrosomus japonicus has an Indo-Pacific distribution occurring in coastal waters surrounding Australia, Africa, India, Pakistan, China and Japan. Adults are gregarious and are found over soft bottoms mainly beyond the surf zone, occasionally going inshore. Juveniles are exclusively found in shallow seas and sometimes move into the brackish water of estuaries.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet
As the fish increase in size the diet changes to include small finned fish, then larger finned fish and squid and other cephalopods.
In crisis
Argyrosomus japonicus is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Argyrosomus japonicus, Wikidata item Q184648. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
