Cynoscion

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

Cynoscion
Cynoscion arenarius
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Perciformes
Suborder:	Percoidei
Superfamily:	Percoidea
Family:	Sciaenidae
Genus:	Cynoscion Gill, 1861

Species

The genus consists of 24 species:[1]

• Cynoscion acoupa (Lacepède, 1801) -- Acoupa weakfish
• Cynoscion albus (Günther, 1864) -- Whitefin weakfish
• Cynoscion analis (Jenyns, 1842) -- Peruvian weakfish
• Cynoscion arenarius (Ginsburg, 1930) -- Sand seatrout
• Cynoscion jamaicensis (Vaillant and Bocourt, 1883) -- Jamaica weakfish
• Cynoscion leiarchus (Cuvier in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1830) -- Smooth weakfish
• Cynoscion microlepidotus (Cuvier in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1830) -- Smallscale weakfish
• Cynoscion nannus (Castro-Aguirre and Arvizu-Martinez, 1976) -- Dwarf weakfish
• Cynoscion nebulosus (Cuvier in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1830) -- Spotted seatrout
• Cynoscion nortoni (Béarez, 2001) -- Hake weakfish
• Cynoscion nothus (Holbrook, 1848) -- Silver seatrout
• Cynoscion othonopterus (Jordan and Gilbert, 1882) -- Gulf weakfish
• Cynoscion parvipinnis (Ayres, 1861) -- Shortfin corvina
• Cynoscion phoxocephalus (Jordan and Gilbert, 1882) -- Cachema weakfish
• Cynoscion praedatorius (Jordan and Gilbert in Jordan and Eigenmann, 1889) -- Boccone weakfish
• Cynoscion regalis (Bloch and Schneider, 1801) -- Weakfish
• Cynoscion reticulatus (Günther, 1864)
• Cynoscion similis (Randall and Cervigón, 1968)
• Cynoscion squamipinnis (Günther, 1867) -- Scalyfin corvina
• Cynoscion steindachneri (Jordan in Jordan and Eigenmann, 1889)
• Cynoscion stolzmanni (Steindachner, 1879) -- Yellowtail corvina
• Cynoscion striatus (also named Cynoscion Guatucupa) (Cuvier, 1829)
• Cynoscion virescens (Cuvier in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1830)
• Cynoscion xanthulus

References

1. Genus on ITIS