Larimichthys crocea

Large yellow croaker
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Sciaenidae
Genus: Larimichthys
Species: L. crocea
Binomial name
Larimichthys crocea
(Richardson, 1846)
Synonyms

Pseudosciaena crocea Richardson, 1846

Larimichthys crocea, called the Croceine croaker, Large yellow croaker or just the Yellow croaker, is a species of croaker native to the western Pacific, generally in temperate waters such as the Taiwan Strait. Males can reach 80 cm.

Once an abundant commercial fish off China, Korea and Japan, its population collapsed in the 1970s due to overfishing.[1] Fishing boats landed 56,088 t of Larimichthys crocea in 2008.[2] The species is aquafarmed in China, and farms have experienced outbreaks of Nocardia seriolae infections. L. crocea is an important enough commercial species to have its genome mapped and its mitochondrial genome sequenced.[3]

On Tuesday 6 January 2015 the large yellow croaker became the 200th organism to have its genome annotated by the NCBI Eukaryotic Genome Annotation Pipeline.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Orleans (ed), Leo A. (1980). Science in Contemporary China. Stanford University Press. p. 239. ISBN 978-0-8047-1078-7.
  2. ↑ "Larimichthys crocea". Fisheries Global Information System. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Retrieved 23 November 2010.
  3. ↑ Ning, Yue; Liu, Xiande; Wang, Zhi Yong; Guo, Wei; Li, Yiyun; Xie, Fangjing (2007). "A genetic map of large yellow croaker Pseudosciaena crocea". Aquaculture (Elsevier) 264: 16–26. doi:10.1016/j.aquaculture.2006.12.042.
  4. ↑ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/news/01-06-2015-eukaryotic-pipeline-200th-annotation/

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