Cynoscion

Cynoscion is a genus of fish in the drum family, Sciaenidae. It contains the weakfish and seatrouts.

Species[]

The genus consists of 24 species:^[1]

Cynoscion acoupa (Lacepède, 1801) -- Acoupa weakfish
(Günther, 1864) -- Whitefin weakfish
(Jenyns, 1842) -- Peruvian weakfish
Cynoscion arenarius (Ginsburg, 1930) -- Sand seatrout
(Vaillant and Bocourt, 1883) -- Jamaica weakfish
(Cuvier in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1830) -- Smooth weakfish
(Cuvier in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1830) -- Smallscale weakfish
(Castro-Aguirre and Arvizu-Martinez, 1976) -- Dwarf weakfish
Cynoscion nebulosus (Cuvier in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1830) -- Spotted seatrout
(Béarez, 2001) -- Hake weakfish
Cynoscion nothus (Holbrook, 1848) -- Silver seatrout
(Jordan and Gilbert, 1882) -- Gulf weakfish
(Ayres, 1861) -- Shortfin corvina
(Jordan and Gilbert, 1882) -- Cachema weakfish
(Jordan and Gilbert in Jordan and Eigenmann, 1889) -- Boccone weakfish
Cynoscion regalis (Bloch and Schneider, 1801) -- Weakfish
(Günther, 1864)
(Randall and Cervigón, 1968)
(Günther, 1867) -- Scalyfin corvina
(Jordan in Jordan and Eigenmann, 1889)
(Steindachner, 1879) -- Yellowtail corvina
(also named Cynoscion Guatucupa) (Cuvier, 1829)
(Cuvier in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1830)