240px|right|thumb|Argyrosomus regius Argyrosomus é um género de peixe da família Sciaenidae e da ordem Perciformes. The Taxonomicon

Morfologia São peixes grandes. Argyrosomus regius atinge 230 cm de comprimento.ZipCodeZoo

Espécies Argyrosomus amoyensis Bleeker, P., 1863. Description de quelques espèces de poissons, nouvelles ou peu connues de Chine, envoyées au Musée de Leide par M.- G. Schlegel. Neder. Tijdschr. Dierk. v. 1: 135-150. Argyrosomus beccus Sasaki, K., 1994. Argyrosomus beccus, a new sciaenid from South Africa. Jpn. J. Ichthyol. v. 41 (núm. 1): 35-38. Argyrosomus coronus Griffiths, M. H. & P. C. Heemstra. 1995. A contribution to the taxonomy of the marine fish genus Argyrosomus (Perciformes: Sciaenidae), with description of two new species from southern Africa. Ichthyol. Bull. J. L. B. Smith Inst. Ichthyol. Núm. 65: 1-40. Argyrosomus heinii Steindachner, F., 1902. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der südarabischen Expedition in den Jahren 1898 bis 1899. Fische von Südarabien und Socotra. Anz. Akad. Wiss. Wien v. 39 (núm. 24): 316-318. Argyrosomus hololepidotus Lacépède, B. G. E., 1801. Histoire naturelle des poissons. Hist. Nat. Poiss. v. 3: i-lxvi + 1-558, Pls. 1-34. Argyrosomus inodorus Argyrosomus japonicus Temminck, C. J. & H. Schlegel. 1843. Pisces, Fauna Japonica Parts 2-4: 21-72. Argyrosomus regius Asso, I. de, 1801. Introducción á la ichthyología oriental de España. An. Cienc. Nat. Inst. José Acosta, Madrid, v. 4 (núm. 10): 28-52, Pls. 34-35. Argyrosomus thorpei Smith, M. M., 1977. A new species of Argyrosomus (Pisces, Sciaenidae) from Natal, South Africa. J. Zool. (Londres) v. 181 (núm. 4): 561-566.BioLib AQUATAB.NETFishBase Catalogue of Life Discover Life Dictionary of Common (Vernacular) Names UNEP-WCMC Species Database

Observações São um troféu cobiçado entre os pescadores desportivos.

Referências

Bibliografia Jordan, D. S. e B. W. Evermann, 1909: Descriptions of three new species of cisco, or lake herring (Argyrosomus), from the Great Lakes of America; with a note on the species of whitefish. Proceedings of the United States National Museum v. 36 (núm. 1662): 165-172. Milner, J. W., 1874: New species of Argyrosomus and Coregonus. Report of the United States Fish Commission for 1872-73: 86-89. Van der Bank, F. H. e C. Kirchner, 1997: Biochemical genetic markers to distinguish two sympatric and morphologically similar Namibian marine fish species, Argyrosomus coronus and Argyrosomus inodorus (Perciformes: Sciaenidae). Journal of African Zoology v. 111 (núm. 6): 441-448.

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