{{Short description|Genus of fishes}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Umbrina roncador mspc098.jpg |image_caption = Yellowfin drum ''Umbrina roncador'' |taxon = Umbrina |authority = Cuvier, 1817<ref name = Fishbase/> |type_species = ''Sciaena cirrosa'' |type_species_authority = Linnaeus, 1758 |subdivision_ranks = Species |subdivision_ref = <ref name = WoRMS_126055>{{cite web | url = http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=126055 | title = ''Umbrina'' Cuvier, 1816 | access-date = 7 April 2017 | publisher = World Register of Marine Species | author = N. Bailly | year = 2014}}</ref> |subdivision = See text |synonyms = * ''Asperina'' <small>Ostroumoff, 1896</small> * ''Attilus'' <small>Gistel, 1848</small> |synonyms_ref = <ref name = GBIF>{{cite web | url = https://www.gbif.org/species/2399651/ | title = Umbrina Cuvier, 1817 | access-date = 7 April 2017 | publisher = GBIF.org}}</ref> }}
'''''Umbrina''''' is a genus of fish from the croaker family Sciaenidae. The genus contains 17 species occurring in tropical and warm temperate waters of the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, the Western Indian Ocean and the eastern Pacific.
==Taxonomy== ''Umbrina'' was first proposed as a genus in 1817 by the French zoologist Georges Cuvier as a monospecific genus with its only species being ''Sciaena cirrosa''.<ref name = CofF>{{Cof family|family=Sciaenidae|access-date=8 July 2023}}</ref> ''S. cirrosa'' had been described by Carl Linnaeus in the 10th edition of the ''Systema Naturae'' published in 1758 and its type locality was given as the Mediterranean Sea and eastern Atlantic.<ref name = CofF2>{{Cof genus|genus=Umbrina|access-date=8 July 2023}}</ref> Some workers have placed this genus in the subfamily Sciaeninae.<ref name = Sasaki1989>{{cite journal | author = Kunio Sasaki | year = 1989 | title = Phylogeny of the family Sciaenidae, with notes on its Zoogeography (Teleostei, Peciformes) | journal = Memoirs of the Faculty of Fishes Hokkaido University | volume = 36 | issue = 1–2 | pages = 1–137 | url = https://eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/2115/21886/1/36(1_2)_P1-137.pdf}}</ref> However, the 5th edition of ''Fishes of the World'' does not recognise tribes or subfamilies within the Sciaenidae which it places in the order Acanthuriformes.<ref name = Nelson5>{{cite book |title=Fishes of the World |edition=5th |author1=J. S. Nelson |author2=T. C. Grande |author3=M. V. H. Wilson |year=2016 |pages=497–502 |publisher=Wiley |isbn=978-1-118-34233-6 |url=https://sites.google.com/site/fotw5th/ |access-date=2023-07-08 |archive-date=2019-04-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190408194051/https://sites.google.com/site/fotw5th/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Etymology== The name of the genus, ''Umbrina'', is a diminutive of ''umbra'' meaning "shade", this was a name used by early naturalists for drums and croakers, in a similar way to ''scion'' or ''Sciaena''.<ref name = ETYFish>{{cite web | url = https://etyfish.org/eupercaria/ | title = Series Eupercaria (Incertae sedis): Families Callanthidae, Centrogenyidae, Dinopercidae, Emmelichthyidae, Malacanthidae, Monodactylidae, Moronidae, Parascorpididae, Sciaenidae and Sillagidae | work = The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database | editor1 = Christopher Scharpf | editor2 = Kenneth J. Lazara | name-list-style = amp | date = 9 March 2023 | access-date = 7 July 2023 | publisher = Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara | archive-date = 17 February 2022 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220217162719/https://etyfish.org/eupercaria/ | url-status = dead }}</ref>
==Species== Currently, 17 species are recognized in the genus:<ref name = Fishbase>{{cite web | url = http://www.fishbase.org/NomenClature/ValidNameList.php?syng=Umbrina&vtitle=Scientific+Names+where+Genus+Equals+%3Ci%3EUmbrina%3C%2Fi%3E&crit1=EQUAL | title = Scientific Names where Genus Equals Umbrina | access-date = 26 December 2016 | publisher = Fishbase.org}}</ref>
*''Umbrina analis'' <small>Günther, 1868</small> (Longspine drum) *''Umbrina broussonnetii'' <small>Cuvier, 1830</small> (Striped drum) *''Umbrina bussingi'' <small>López S., 1980</small> (Bussing's drum) *''Umbrina canariensis'' <small>Valenciennes, 1843</small> (Canary drum) *''Umbrina canosai'' <small>Berg, 1895</small> (Argentine croaker) *''Umbrina cirrosa'' <small>(Linnaeus, 1758)</small> (Shi drum) *''Umbrina coroides'' <small>Cuvier, 1830</small> (Sand drum) *''Umbrina dorsalis'' <small>Gill, 1862</small> (Longfin drum) *''Umbrina galapagorum'' <small>Steindachner, 1878</small> (Galápagos drum) *''Umbrina imberbis'' <small>Günther, 1873</small> *''Umbrina milliae'' <small>Miller, 1971</small> *''Umbrina reedi'' <small>Günther, 1880</small> *''Umbrina roncador'' <small>Jordan & Gilbert, 1882</small> (Yellowfin drum) *''Umbrina ronchus'' <small>Valenciennes, 1843</small> (Fusca drum) *''Umbrina steindachneri'' <small>Cadenat 1951</small> (Steindachner's drum) *''Umbrina wintersteeni'' <small>Walker & Radford, 1992</small> (Wintersteen drum) *''Umbrina xanti'' <small>Gill, 1862</small> (Polla drum)
==Description== [[File:Umbrina (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 15 July 1865).jpg|alt=An 1865 watercolor umbrina painting by Jacques Burkhardt.|left|thumb|An 1865 watercolor ''umbrina'' painting by Jacques Burkhardt.]] The species of the genus ''Umbrina'' are elongated, laterally compressed fishes with a rounded belly. The head is lower than the relatively high back. The mouth is small and set below the midline with a short, there is a short, stocky barbel on the chin with a pore at the end and two pores om wither side of the base. The eye is medium-sized and the diameter is a quarter of the length of the head. The teeth sit in two rows per jaw, of which the outer is larger in the upper jaw. The edge of the scales are finely serrated. The body is dark brown or silver-colored and has opaque stripes or vertical bars. The first dorsal fin is short and has ten thin hard rays. The second, long spine has 25 to 30 soft rays. The small anal fin has two hard and five to eight soft rays.<ref name = FAO>{{cite book | editor = Carpenter, K.E. | year = 2002 | title = The living marine resources of the Western Central Atlantic. Volume 3. Bony fishes part 2 (Ophistognathidae to Molidae) sea turtles and marine mammals | author = N. L. Chao | chapter = Sciaenidae Croakers (Drums) |publisher = Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | isbn = 92-5-104827-4}}</ref><ref name = "Discover Life">{{cite web | url = http://www.discoverlife.org/mp/20o?search=Umbrina | title = ''Umbrina'' | access-date = 26 December 2016 | publisher = Discover Life}}</ref>
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Category:Sciaenidae Category:Umbrina Category:Taxa named by Georges Cuvier Category:Actinopterygii genera