rock croaker

Pareques viola

Purple bronze slender body

rock croaker is known from Eastern Pacific as a marine fish. It occurs in marine waters.

Class: Teleosts
Order: Surgeonfishes and Allies
Family: Sciaenidae
Genus: Pareques
Maximum length: 25 cm
Water: Marine
Body shape: fusiform
Distribution: Eastern Pacific: throughout Gulf of California south to Peru. Recorded in the Galapagos Islands during the 1982-83 El Niño (Ref. 9405 ).
Conservation status: LCLeast Concern

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