WHATSTHATFISH
Bony fish

Black Seabream

Spondyliosoma cantharus

Also known as: Black Bream, Old Wife, Seabream

LCLeast ConcernIUCN Red List, 2014
Adult
@jpc · Praia da Luz, algarve, Portugal · July 19991 / 3
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Overview

Found singly, or in large schools, over rock, sand, and seagrass beds, in shallow to deep waters.

Porgies are found in tropical as well as cooler waters and are bottom-dwelling carnivores. Most species possess grinding, molar-like teeth for eating crustaceans.

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How to identify

Fins & Tail
black tail

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Habitat & where to find it

  • Range · Eastern Atlantic, Mediterranean, Black Sea
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Found singly, or in large schools, over rock, sand, and seagrass beds, in shallow to deep waters.

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    Taxonomy

    1. kingdomAnimalia
    2. phylumChordata
    3. classTeleostei
    4. orderEupercaria incertae sedis
    5. familySparidae
    6. genusSpondyliosoma
    7. speciesSpondyliosoma cantharus (Linnaeus, 1758)

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    More in the family

    Porgies (Sparidae)