Daysciaena albida (Cuvier, 1830)
Bengal corvina
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Daysciaena albida
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Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | Catalog of Fishes(genus, species) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa
Teleostei (teleosts) > Eupercaria/misc (Various families in series Eupercaria) > Sciaenidae (Drums or croakers)
Etymology: Daysciaena: Because of Day, Francis; (1878-1888), author of four books related to Indian fishes + Greek, skyadeis, skyaina = a perch.
More on author: Cuvier.
Etymology: Daysciaena: Because of Day, Francis; (1878-1888), author of four books related to Indian fishes + Greek, skyadeis, skyaina = a perch.
More on author: Cuvier.
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology
Marine; brackish; benthopelagic; amphidromous (Ref. 51243). Tropical
Distribution Territories | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Point map | Introductions | Faunafri
Indian Ocean: India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan. Reported occurrences in Indonesia (particularly from Sumatra and west Borneo) cannot be verified (Sasaki, pers. comm.).
Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 90.0 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 4833); max. published weight: 1.6 kg (Ref. 115172)
Max length : 90.0 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 4833); max. published weight: 1.6 kg (Ref. 115172)
Found in coastal waters and estuaries (Ref. 4833). Important food fish.
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Main reference
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Sasaki, K., 1996. Sciaenid fishes of the Indian Ocean (Teleostei, Perciformes). Mem. Fac. Sci. 16/17:83-95. (Ref. 26262)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2 (Global))
Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 26 September 2018
CITES
Not Evaluated
Threat to humans
Harmless
Human uses
Fisheries: commercial
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AFORO (otoliths) | Aquatic Commons | BHL | Cloffa | Websites from users | Check FishWatcher | CISTI | Catalog of Fishes: genus, species | DiscoverLife | ECOTOX | FAO - Publication: search | Faunafri | Fishipedia | Fishtrace | GloBI | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | IGFA World Record | OneZoom | Open Tree of Life | Otolith Atlas of Taiwan Fishes | PubMed | Reef Life Survey | Socotra Atlas | TreeBase | Tree of Life | Wikipedia: Go, Search | World Records Freshwater Fishing | Zoological Record
Estimates based on models
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Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804) |
PD50 = 1.0000 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high]. |
| Bayesian length-weight | a=0.00871 (0.00799 - 0.00949), b=3.07 (3.05 - 3.09), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this species (Ref. 93245). |
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Trophic level (Ref. 69278) |
3.8 ±0.3 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives |
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Resilience (Ref. 120179) |
Low, minimum population doubling time 4.5 - 14 years (Preliminary K or Fecundity.). |
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Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153) |
High vulnerability (59 of 100). 🛈 |
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Price category (Ref. 80766) |
Medium. |