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Common names: Spot
Occurrence: native
Salinity: brackish
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Importance: minor commercial | Ref: FAO, 1994
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Uses: bait: yes;
Comments: Present in the continental shelf waters off the northeastern United States (Ref. 37512). This species is one of big five historically associated with the commercial fisheries of the lower Chesapeake Bay and the North Carolina sounds. It is taken by haul seine, gill net, and pound traps. Although its current market value is as a live bait fish, it remains in demand as a food fish (fried or salted and boiled) for the older generation. Spot generally exit the Chesapeake before cold weather. In unusual situations, however, they linger and if there is a cold snap, it can succumb in large numbers (Bernie Herman - blherman@email.unc.edu, pers. comm. 01/12).
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Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Robins, C.R. and G.C. Ray, 1986
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Common names from other countries

Tambour croca, Verrugato croca, Spot, ... more

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> Eupercaria/misc (Various families in series Eupercaria) > Sciaenidae (Drums or croakers)
Etymology: Leiostomus: Greek, leios = smooth + Greek,stoma = mouth (Ref. 45335).
More on author: Lacepède.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecologia

marino; salmastro demersale; oceanodromo (Ref. 51243); distribuzione batimetrica ? - 60 m (Ref. 10325). Subtropical; 43°N - 19°N

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Western Atlantic: Massachusetts to northern Mexico; absent in southern Florida.

Size / Peso / Age

Maturity: L_m ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 36.0 cm TL maschio/sesso non determinato; (Ref. 7251); common length : 25.0 cm TL maschio/sesso non determinato; (Ref. 3702); peso massimo pubblicato: 450.00 g (Ref. 40637); Età massima riportata: 4 anni (Ref. 12193)

Found usually over sandy or muddy bottoms in coastal waters to about 60 m depth. Occurs in nursery and feeding grounds in river estuaries during summer and fall. Juveniles often stay in the estuarine waters throughout the year. Feeds mainly on worms, small crustaceans and organic detritus. A small specimen of this species was caught in Tokyo Bay, Japan, probably brought in with the ballast water of a ship (Ref. 10325).

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Robins, C.R. and G.C. Ray, 1986. A field guide to Atlantic coast fishes of North America. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, U.S.A. 354 p. (Ref. 7251)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 09 October 2019

CITES (Ref. 128078)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Harmless

Human uses

Pesca: commerciale; esca: occasionally

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Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 13.2 - 26.7, mean 24 (based on 314 cells).

Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804): PD₅₀ = 1.0000 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].

Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00912 (0.00583 - 0.01426), b=3.10 (2.97 - 3.23), in cm Total Length, based on LWR estimates for this species & (Sub)family-body (Ref. 93245).

Trophic level (Ref. 69278): 3.2 ±0.1 se; based on diet studies.

Resilienza (Ref. 120179): Alto, tempo minimo di raddoppiamento della popolazione meno di 15 mesi (K=0.4; tmax=4).

Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153): Low to moderate vulnerability (29 of 100).

Climate Vulnerability (Ref. 125649): Moderate to high vulnerability (47 of 100).

Price category (Ref. 80766): Low.

Leiostomus xanthurus Lacepède, 1802