Endangered
Pseudotolithus senegalensis
Pseudotolithus senegalensis
Pseudotolithus senegalensis, the cassava drum, is a large fish found on the coast of West Africa.
Appearance
Pseudotolithus senegalensis is congeneric to P. Typhus, it has a greyish brown color above that becomes paler beneath. It has 11 spines in its dorsal fin and 2 spines in the anal fin.
It can grow up to a maximum length of 114 cm with a common length of about 50 cm for adults.
Range and habitat
Pseudotolithus senegalensis is found in the Eastern Atlantic along the West African coast. It occurs over muddy waters in open shelf. Pseudotolithus senegalensis, the cassava drum, is a large fish found on the coast of West Africa.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet
The main diet are prawns and epibenthic crustaceans.
In crisis
Pseudotolithus senegalensis 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 Pseudotolithus senegalensis, Wikidata item Q2368567. 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.
