Summary ²

Menticirrhus americanus, the southern kingfish, southern kingcroaker, the king whiting or the Carolina whiting, is a species of marine fish in the family Sciaenidae. It lives in shallow coastal waters on the western fringes of the Atlantic Ocean.

Link to Access Genomic Data ³

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?id=278734&lvl=0

Sources and Credits

1. (c) Robertson Ross, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), https://biogeodb.stri.si.edu/caribbean/resources/img/images/species/3790_4362.jpg
2. (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menticirrhus_americanus
3. (c) matbio, all rights reserved

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