Blue drum

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Nibea mitsukurii is a species of fish in the family Sciaenidae, order Acanthuriformes. It is a benthopelagic marine fish of temperate climate (32°N-23°N). It is found in the northwestern Pacific Ocean near Japan and the East China Sea. It is harmless to humans, and is commercially farmed for food. The fish is sometimes called nibe croaker in English. In Japanese it is variously known as nibe, honnibe, haraka, ishimochi (lit. "has stones"), guchi, or shiroguchi (lit. "white croaker"). The name ishimochi is a reference to its large otoliths; the names guchi and shiroguchi come from the sound it produces – compare English croaker fish. Males can reach 75 cm in total length. Number of vertebrae is 23. The fish's body is gray, and its meat is white when cooked. It can be distinguished visually by the absence of black spots on the upper gill cover, and the presence of rows of black spots on the sides of the body. In Japan it is commercially farmed.

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Identity & source status

Scientific name

Nibea mitsukurii (Jordan & Snyder, 1900)

Name authority

(Jordan & Snyder, 1900)

Common name

Blue drum

Rank

species

Accepted status

accepted

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Teleostei

Family

Sciaenidae

Genus

Nibea

Extinction status

Not supplied by this source

Source habitat flags: Marine: yes · Freshwater: no · Terrestrial: no. These do not form a complete habitat description.

Classification family tree

Nested taxonomic groups from the source. This is not a direct-ancestor chain, a dated evolutionary tree or a phylogenetic reconstruction.

1. domainEukaryota (Chatton, 1925) Whittaker & Margulis, 1978
2. kingdomAnimalia
3. phylumChordata
4. subphylumVertebrata
5. infraphylumGnathostomata
6. parvphylumOsteichthyes
7. gigaclassActinopterygii
8. superclassActinopteri
9. classTeleostei
10. familySciaenidae Cuvier, 1829
11. genusNibea Jordan & Thompson, 1911
12. speciesNibea mitsukurii (Jordan & Snyder, 1900)

Close classified relatives

These entries share the source’s genus, Nibea. They are not necessarily the closest relatives established by molecular evidence.

Browse 231 records assigned to Sciaenidae.

Names & synonyms

Names explicitly linked to this accepted taxon in the source. Synonymy can change with revision.

Source literature & publication evidence

References attached to this source record, including nomenclatural citations where supplied. This is a selected bibliography; abbreviated citations remain in the source’s form.

1. https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=281753 Source fields: Taxon.tsv dwc:namePublishedIn, Taxon.tsv dcterms:references

Origins, evidence & remaining research

Name authority and publication references document nomenclature where the source supplies it. They do not establish evolutionary origins or the earliest fossil occurrence.

Specimen-level evidence, morphology, ecological research, phylogenetic studies, a comprehensive bibliography and a located literary passage have not yet been compiled for this record. A suitable sourced image remains to be added.

Dataset citation & attribution

This exact taxon in ChecklistBank · Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11

Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11; dataset 316321; doi:10.48580/dgz5n. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Retrieved 5 October 2026.

Stable key: col:47C9Y. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.