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Sciaena

Osteichthyes - Lutjaniformes - Sciaenidae

Taxonomy

Sciaena was named by Linnaeus (1758) [Sepkoski's age data: T Mi-u R Sepkoski's reference number: 915]. It is extant.

It was assigned to Perciformes by Sepkoski (2002); to Sciaenidae by Danil'chenko (1980), Szabo et al. (2017); and to Sciaenidae by Steurbaut (1984), Ebersole et al. (2019), Ebersole et al. (2021), Cicimurri et al. (2025).

Species

S. amplus, S. bathytatos, S. holsatica, S. impropria, S. irregularis, S. kirchbergensis, S. knyrkoi, S. meridionalis, S. obtusus, S. pecchioli, S. pimenovae, S. pseudoradians, S. radians, S. simplex, S. umbra

Species lacking formal opinion data

S. claybornensis, S. eanesi, S. elongata, S. intermedia, S. livesayi, S. obtusa, S. psuedoradians, S. rybnicensis

Entered

by J. Sepkoski on 2003-01-23; modified by L. van den Hoek Ostende on 2013-10-27

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1758	Sciaena Linnaeus p. 288
1980	Sciaena Danil'chenko p. 134
1984	Sciaena Steurbaut p. 95
2002	Sciaena Sepkoski
2017	Sciaena Szabo et al.
2019	Sciaena Ebersole et al. p. 213
2021	Sciaena Ebersole et al. p. 500
2025	Sciaena Cicimurri et al. p. 91

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
class	Osteichthyes
subclass	Actinopterygii	()

Rank	Name	Author
infraclass	Actinopteri	()
—	Teleosteomorpha
—	Acanthopterygii
—	Percomorphaceae
—	Eupercaria	Betancur et al. 2013
order	Lutjaniformes
family	Sciaenidae	Cuvier 1828
genus	Sciaena

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Sciaena Linnaeus 1758

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†Sciaena amplus Koken 1891

Sciaena bathytatos Chao and Miller 1975

†Sciaena holsatica Koken 1891

†Sciaena impropria Gabelaia 1976

†Sciaena irregularis Koken 1884

†Sciaena kirchbergensis Koken 1891

†Sciaena knyrkoi Danil'chenko 1980

†Sciaena meridionalis Koken 1891

†Sciaena obtusus Koken 1891

†Sciaena pecchioli Lawley 1876

†Sciaena pimenovae Bogatsov 1955

†Sciaena pseudoradians Frizzell and Dante 1965

†Sciaena radians Koken 1888

†Sciaena simplex Frost 1926

Sciaena umbra Linnaeus 1758

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

phosphaticsubp

Environment:

marinesubp

Locomotion:

actively mobilec

Life habit:

planktonicp

Diet:

suspension feederp

Created:

2009-07-20 21:50:54

Modified:

2009-07-20 23:50:54

Source: c = class, subp = subphylum, p = phylum

References: Kiessling 2004, Bambach et al. 2007, Hendy et al. 2009, Carroll 1988

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Lutetian to the top of the Tortonian or 48.07000 to 7.24600 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 41.03 Ma

Collections (36 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Lutetian	48.07 - 41.03	USA (Texas)	S. eanesi (237130) S. eanesi, S. intermedia, S. livesayi (237116)
Lutetian	48.07 - 41.03	Nigeria	Otolithus simplex (60711)
Lutetian	48.07 - 41.03	USA (Virginia)	S. eanesi, S. livesayi (237135)
Lutetian	48.07 - 41.03	USA (Mississippi)	S. intermedia (237142)
Middle Eocene	48.07 - 37.71	USA (Louisiana)	S. psuedoradians (164390)
Bartonian	41.03 - 37.71	USA (Mississippi)	S. claybornensis, S. eanesi, S. livesayi (237141) S. claybornensis, S. pseudoradians (237132)
Bartonian	41.03 - 37.71	USA (Texas)	S. claybornensis, S. intermedia, S. livesayi (237131) S. eanesi, S. intermedia, S. livesayi, S. pseudoradians (237143)
Bartonian	41.03 - 37.71	Nigeria	S. simplex (32905)
Bartonian	41.03 - 37.71	USA (Louisiana)	S. pseudoradians (3534)
Bartonian	41.03 - 37.71	USA (Alabama)	S. claybornensis, S. eanesi (237138) S. claybornensis, S. eanesi, S. intermedia, S. livesayi (237117) S. claybornensis, S. pseudoradians (237139)
Priabonian	37.71 - 33.9	USA (Louisiana)	S. claybornensis, S. pseudoradians (237115) S. umbra (32925)
Priabonian	37.71 - 33.9	USA (Mississippi)	S. claybornensis, S. pseudoradians (237133)
Early/Lower Oligocene	33.9 - 27.3	USA (Louisiana)	S. psuedoradians (164391)
Rupelian	33.9 - 27.3	USA (Mississippi)	Corvina pseudoradians (84136 84137 84138 84139 84140)
Rupelian	33.9 - 27.3	USA (Alabama)	S. pseudoradians (89610)
Chattian	27.3 - 23.04	Hungary	S. sp. (184477)
Chattian	27.3 - 23.04	USA (Mississippi)	Corvina pseudoradians (49872) S. pseudoradians, S. radians (133111)
Chattian	27.3 - 23.04	Germany (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern)	S. elongata, S. sp., S. irregularis (32012)
Aquitanian	23.04 - 20.45	Hungary (Esztergom)	S. sp. (186636)
Early/Lower Miocene	23.04 - 15.98	Venezuela (Paraguana)	S. sp. (118106)
Middle Miocene	15.98 - 11.63	Germany (Lower Saxony)	S. obtusa (161965)
Badenian	13.82 - 12.8	Czechia (Mikulov)	S. rybnicensis, S. irregularis (161993)
Serravallian	13.82 - 11.63	Romania	S. sp. (222591)
Tortonian	11.63 - 7.246	Denmark (Jutland)	S. holsatica (34521)
Late/Upper Miocene	11.63 - 5.333	Germany	S. holsatica (223566)