Southern kingcroaker
- kingdom: Animalia
- phylum: Chordata
- class: Actinopterygii
- order: Perciformes
- family: Sciaenidae
- genus: Menticirrhus
- species: Menticirrhus americanus
- Mar del Plata
Buenos Aires
Argentina- Maceió
Alagoas- Vila Velha
Espírito Santo- Campinas
Santa Catarina
Brazil- Antón Lizardo
Veracruz
Mexico- Scarborough
Tobago
Trinidad And Tobago- Dauphin Island
- Point Clear
Alabama- Brunswick
- Savannah
- Tybee Island
Georgia- Van Lear
Kentucky- Crisfield
Maryland- Biloxi
- Gautier
- Gulf Park Estates
- Ocean Springs
Mississippi- Belford
- Mystic Island
- North Middletown
- Port Monmouth
New Jersey- Atlantic Beach
- Beaufort
- Buxton
- Southport
North Carolina- Charleston
- Kiawah Island
- Seabrook Island
- Sullivans Island
South Carolina
United States