Stellifer

Stellifer is a genus of fish in the family Sciaenidae, the drums and croakers. It is found in New World waters.[1] Many species are known commonly as stardrums.

Stellifer
Stellifer lanceolatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Actinopterygii
Order:
Perciformes
Suborder:
Percoidei
Family:
Sciaenidae
Genus:
Stellifer

Oken, 1817
Species

see text

In the Americas, this is one of the most diverse genera among the sciaenids. Its members can be found in the tropics and subtropics and in shallow and deeper waters. Some are semianadromous, spawning in the ocean near estuaries so the eggs and young will be taken into lower-salinity environments on the tides.[2]

The genus belongs to the subfamily Stelliferinae, whose members have double-chambered swim bladders (the smaller front chamber is "yoke-shaped" and the main chamber is "carrot-shaped") and two pairs of large otoliths.

These fish are very common in their range, and there are usually at least two species occurring together. Stellifer rastrifer is one of the most abundant sciaenids in the seas along the coast of Brazil.[2]

These fish are carnivorous, with diet assessments of a few different species finding mysids such as Mysidopsis coelhoi, copepods such as Acartia lilljeborgii and Pseudodiaptomus acutus, sergestoid prawns such as Peisos petrunkevitchi, amphipods, chaetognaths, isopods, cumaceans, ostracods, ascidian tunicates, nematodes, polychaetes, fish, and bivalves, or at least their siphons.[3] S. rastrifer is known to cannibalize juveniles of its own species.[4]

Several species are common bycatch in the seabob shrimp industry.[2]

Species include:[5][6][7]

  • Stellifer brasiliensis
  • Stellifer chaoi
  • Stellifer chrysoleuca - shortnose stardrum, corvinilla chata
  • Stellifer colonensis
  • Stellifer ephelis
  • Stellifer ericymba - hollow stardrum, corvinilla hueca
  • Stellifer fuerthii - white stardrum
  • Stellifer griseus - gray stardrum
  • Stellifer illecebrosus - silver stardrum, mojararilla, corvinilla plateada
  • Stellifer lanceolatus - American stardrum, corvinilla lanza
  • Stellifer magoi
  • Stellifer mancorensis - smooth stardrum
  • Stellifer melanocheir - black stardrum
  • Stellifer microps - smalleye stardrum
  • Stellifer minor - minor stardrum
  • Stellifer naso - burrito[8]
  • Stellifer oscitans - yawning stardrum
  • Stellifer pizarroensis - Pizarro stardrum
  • Stellifer rastrifer - rake stardrum
  • Stellifer stellifer - little croaker
  • Stellifer venezuelae
  • Stellifer walkeri[1] - professor stardrum, corvinilla del profesor
  • Stellifer wintersteenorum[1] - amigo stardrum, corvinilla amigable
  • Stellifer zestocarus - softhead stardrum

References
  1. Chao, N. L. (2001). Two new species of Stellifer from inshore waters of the eastern Pacific, with a redescription of S. ephelis (Perciformes: Sciaenidae). Rev. Biol. Trop. 49 Supl. 1 67-80.
  2. Pombo, M., et al. (2012). Population biology of Stellifer rastrifer, S. brasiliensis and S. stellifer in Caraguatatuba Bay, northern coast of São Paulo, Brazil. Brazilian Journal of Oceanography 60(3) 271-82.
  3. Pombo, M., et al. (2013). Seasonality, dietary overlap and the role of taxonomic resolution in the study of the diet of three congeneric fishes from a tropical bay. PLoS ONE 8(2) e56107.
  4. Camargo, M. and V. Isaac. (2004). Food categories reconstruction and feeding consumption estimates for the sciaenid Macrodon ancylodon (Bloch & Schneider), and the congeneric fishes Stellifer rastrifer (Jordan) and Stellifer naso (Jordan) (Pisces, Perciformes) in the Caeté Estuary, northern coast of Brazil. Revista Brasileira de Zoologia 21(1) 85-89.
  5. Bailly, N. (2013). Stellifer Oken, 1817. In: Froese, R. and D. Pauly Eds. FishBase. World Register of Marine Species. Accessed 6 June 2013.
  6. Stellifer Oken, 1817. Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
  7. Froese, R. and D. Pauly, Eds. Stellifer: List of species. FishBase. 2011.
  8. Common names of Stellifer naso. FishBase.
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