Meagre
📖 Overview
Adults are found inshore and shelf waters, close to bottom as well as in surface and mid-waters, pursuing shoals of clupeids and mugilids. They congregate inshore to spawn during spring and summer. Juveniles and sub-adults enter estuaries and coastal lagoons . Both adults and juveniles are migratory moving along shore or offshore-onshore in response to temperature change . Feed on fishes and swimming crustaceans.
🔬 Taxonomy
🐟 Physical Description
Dorsal spines (total): 10 - 11; Dorsal soft rays (total): 27 - 29. Rough scales, Second dorsal fin (soft ray) twice as long as first, spiny rayed dorsal fin .: fusiform / normal.
🌀 Behaviour
Behavioural data for Meagre is currently being reviewed.
🦐 Diet
Diet information for Meagre is currently being compiled.
🥚 Reproduction
Reproduction data for Meagre is currently being compiled.
🌍 Habitat & Distribution
Marine; brackish; benthopelagic; oceanodromous ; depth range 15 - 300 m . Subtropical; 65°N - 6°S, 23°W - 36°E
🌿 Ecology
fishes and swimming crustaceans
📐 Morphometrics
🌡️ Water Parameters & Tolerance
🛡️ Conservation Assessment
📊 Population Risk & Fisheries
🍽️ Edibility & Flavour
"Meagre is an edible species."
- Clear, bright eyes — cloudy eyes indicate age
- Firm flesh that springs back when pressed
- Fresh ocean smell, never strong or ammonia-like
- Bright red or pink gills, not grey or brown
- Shiny, moist skin with scales tightly attached
- Cloudy or sunken eyes
- Strong fishy or ammonia odour
- Soft, mushy flesh that doesn't spring back
- Discoloured or dry flesh
⚡ Nutrition
Per 100g cooked — Source: USDA FoodData Central
| Nutrient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Protein | 19.4 g |
| Omega-3 (total) | 322 mg |
🔬 Mercury Safety
Mercury data for Meagre has not yet been assigned. Please consult FDA/EPA guidance for general seafood safety advice.
🌿 Sustainability
🌐 Names & Taxonomy
| Language | Common Names |
|---|---|
| 🇬🇧English | Croaker · Jewfish · Meagre · Salmon Bass · Shadefish · atlantic shadefish |
| 🇸🇦Arabic | Miru · Spydfisk Sugefisk |
| 🏳️Catalan | corballina · reig |
| 🌍CYM | Drymwyr · drymiwr |
| 🇩🇰Danish | Ørnefisk · Almindelig ørnefisk |
| 🇩🇪German | Adlerfisch · Uma-aji · Umberfisch |
| 🌍ELL | Kranios · Mayáticos aetós · Κρανιός |
| 🇫🇮Finnish | Kotkakala |
| 🇫🇷French | Courbine · Maigre commun · Maigre, Maigre commun · maigre |
| 🌍HEB | מוסר מלכותי |
| 🌍ISL | Baulfiskur |
| 🇮🇹Italian | Bocca d'oro · Boccagialla · Buccadoru · Corbo · Laccia · Lecce · Pei spa · Súrici · Umbraine · Umbrina 'mperiali · Umbrina de scheuggio · Umbrina i scogghiu · Umbrina laccia · Voador · Vucca di sangu · ombrina bocca d'oro |
| 🌍MLT | Gurbell · Gurbell rar · Ombr · Ombra |
| 🇳🇱Dutch | Ombervis |
| 🌍NNO | ørnefisk |
| 🌍NOB | ørnefisk |
| 🇳🇴Norwegian | Orkinopalamida · Ørnefisk |
| 🇵🇱Polish | kulbin |
| 🇵🇹Portuguese | Borregata · Corvina · Corvina-legítima · Corvina-real · Corvina-vulgar |
| 🇷🇺Russian | Горбыль серебристый |
| 🇪🇸Spanish | Corbina · Corvina · meagre · perca regia |
| 🌍SQI | Ame · ameja · orli i detit |
| 🌍SRP | Grb · Sjenka |
| 🇸🇪Swedish | Havsgös |
| 🌍TUR | Sampitre · San agiz · Saraghina · sari agiz · yagli dramoz |
| 🌍UKR | Горбань сріблястий |
Scientific Synonyms
| Scientific Name | Author | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Argyrosomus procerus | De la Pylaie | 1835 | Synonym |
| Cheilodipterus aquila | Lacepède | 1803 | Synonym |
| Perca luth | Walbaum | 1792 | Synonym |
| Perca regia | Asso | 1801 | Synonym |
| Perca vanloo | Risso | 1810 | Synonym |
| Sciaena aquila | Lacepède | 1803 | Synonym |
| Sciaena regius | Asso | 1801 | Synonym |
🔍 Similar Species
🗺️ Global Occurrence Map
Occurrence records from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) — 10 records indexed .
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