Black Drum

Coastal Habitats

Animals of the Nearshore Waters 

Black Drum

Black Drum

Pogonias cromis

 

Black drum can survive in most conditions from fresh water to water twice as salty as the Gulf, from freezing weather to the extremely warm shallows of Laguna Madre in the summer. Barbels, or whiskers, on their chin help black drum find worms, shrimp, crabs and other shellfish. The fish crush their food with plates of teeth in their throats.

Animals of the Nearshore Waters

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