Fish · La Saladita, Guerrero

Common Snook

Centropomus undecimalis

Spanish: Robalo blanco

Common Snook (Centropomus undecimalis)
Photographed by squidpastry on iNaturalist · CC-BY-NC · taken in Florida, US, not near La Saladita

The common snook (Centropomus undecimalis) is a species of marine fish in the family Centropomidae of the order Perciformes. The common snook is also known as the sergeant fish or robalo. It was originally assigned to the sciaenid genus Sciaena; Sciaena undecimradiatus and Centropomus undecimradiatus are obsolete synonyms for the species.

TaxonomyActinopterygii › Carangiformes › Centropomidae
Local recordsNot recorded by research-grade iNaturalist observations within about 50 km; listed from the site's curated guide
Global records2,491 on iNaturalist

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Cite as: “Common Snook (Centropomus undecimalis) at La Saladita”, La Saladita Field Guide, lasaladita.com/species/centropomus-undecimalis/, updated 2026-09-26. Observation counts and months come from iNaturalist research-grade records within about 50 km of 17.8375°N, 101.7606°W (the survey box also takes in Zihuatanejo, Ixtapa and Troncones); summary text from Wikipedia where present.