Author: Valenciennes, 1843

Umbrina ronchus Valenciennes, 1843

Diagnosis: body rather elongate and moderately deep; mouth small, infenor, teeth villiform; chin with a short rigid barbel, perforated by a pore at its tip. Dl X; D2 I + 25-27. A II + 7. Caudal fin truncate to slightly emarginate. Scales mostly ctenoid. Swimbladder simple, carrotshaped, without appendages. Colour: dark brown, upper sides and back with faint oblique lines along scale rows, tending to fade in larger individuals; pelvic fins and distal portion of anal fin jet black, other fins dusky. Size: to 77 cm SL, common to 40 cm.

Habitat: inshore among rocks and off sandy beaches, from 20 to 200 m depth; juveniles mainly occur in littoral areas, but do not enter estuaries. Food: shrimps, worms and other bottom-dwelling invertebrates. Reproduction: probably from late spring to early autumn.

Distribution: Atlantic coasts from Gibraltar at least to Angola, includin the Canaries, also western Mediterranean.

Eggs, larvae and young stages. No data.
Otoliths (sagitta). (Rec. as ronchus, but determination doubtful; see confusion in synonymy of U. canariensis) | ? Koken, 1888: 285, pl. XIX (fig. 12) (Corvina ronchus) | Sanz Echeverría, 1926: 155, fig. 32-33; 1931: 373, pl. II (fig. 16) | Chaine, 1938: 65, pl. VII.

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Subphylum Vertebrata
Superclass Gnathostomata
Class Osteichthyes
Order Perciformes
Suborder Percoidei
Family Sciaenidae
Genus Umbrina
Species Umbrina ronchus

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Accepted name: Umbrina ronchus Valenciennes, 1843

Scientific synonyms and common names

Umbrina ronchus Valenciennes, 1843

Synonyms:

Umbrina ronchus Valenciennes, 1843, Ichthyologie des Iles Canaries: 24 (Canary). Type probably not the specimen so labelled (see Dardignac, 1961: 273; Trewavas, 1964: 113). Neotype: BMNH no. 1964.12.30.1, design. and descr. by Palmer, 1966.
? Umbrina capensis Pappe, 1853, Synopsis edible fishes C. of Good Hope, ed. 1:16. No type (see Palmer, 1966).
Umbrina ronchus: Giglioli, 1881: 535 Cadenat, 1950: 221, fig. 158.
Umbrina fusca Dardignac, 1958, in Furnestin et al., Rev. Trav. InSt. Pêches marit., 22: 441, fig. 46 (Morocco). Type: ISTPM.
Umbrina fusca: Dardignac, 1961: 264, 266-267, fig. 4, Sc, 6-13.


Common names:

fusca drum [En]
ombrine fusca [Fr]
verrugato fusco [Es]

Cadenat, J. 1951. Poissons de mer du Sénégal, Initiations africaines, III, Inst. fr. Afr. noire, Dakar, 1950 [1951]: 345 pp., 241 fig.

Chaine, J. 1938b. Recherches sur les otolithes des poissons. Étude descriptive et comparative de la sagitta des Téléostéens (suite). Act. Soc. linn. Bordeaux, 90: pp. 5-258, pl. I-XVIII.

Dardignac, J. 1961. Les ombrines des côtes atlantiques du Maroc. Rev. Trav. Inst. (scient. tech.) Pêch. marit., 25: 263-279.

Furnestin, J.; Dardignac, J.; Maurin, C.; Coupé, A.; Boutière, H. 1958. Données nouvelles sur les poissons du Maroc atlantique. Revue Trav. Inst. (scient. tech.) Pêch. marit., Paris, 22 (4): pp. 379-493, 1 pp. errata, 75 fig.

Giglioli, E. H. 1882a. New and very rare fish from the Mediterranean. Nature, Lond., 25: 535.

Koken, E. 1888. Neue Untersuchungen and tertiären Fischotolithen. Z. dt. geol Ges., 40: 274-305, 3 pl.

Palmer, G. 1966. Additional notes on some umbrinine fishes (Family Sciaenidae). Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., (13) 9: pp. 423-427, pl. VI-VII.

Pappe, C. W. L. 1853. Synopsis of the edible fishes of the Cape of Good Hope. Capetown, 34 pp.

Sanz Echeverria, J. 1926. Datos sobre el otolito, sagitta de los peces de España. Boln R. Soc. esp. Hist. nat., 26 (1): pp. 145-160, 71 fig.

Trewavas, E. 1964. The sciaenid fishes with a single mental barbel. Copeia, 1964: 107-117, 2 fig.

Valenciennes, A. 1837-1844. Ichthyologie des îles Canaries, ou histoire naturelle des poissons rapportés par MM. Webb et Berthelot. In: P. B. Webb et S. Berthelot, Histoire naturelle des Iles Canaries. Paris, 2 (2): 1-109, 26pl. [Plates: 1837: pl.1, 3-4, 8, 11-12; 1838: pl. 7, 10, 13, 14, 17; 1839: pl. 5, 9, 15-16, 18; 1840: pl. 2; 1841: pl. 6- 1842: pl. 19; 1843: pl. 20-23; 1844: pl. 24-26. Text: 1842 : 1-8; 1843: 9-96; 1844: 97-109].

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