King Weakfish

Macrodon ancylodon

• Group: Other
• Typical depth: 0–60 m
• Max size: 53 cm
• For divers: safe
• IUCN status: LC

This weakfish works mud and sandy mud bottoms in coastal water down to about 60 metres, hunting shrimps and smaller fishes. The young crowd into estuaries and tidal mud flats, and it is an important food fish where it is caught.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Chordata › Teleostei › Eupercaria incertae sedis › Sciaenidae › Macrodon

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 281477.