Black Seabream
Spondyliosoma cantharus
Also known as: Black Bream, Old Wife, Seabream
- Black Bream
- Old Wife
- Seabream
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.
How to identify
- Pattern
- yellow lines
- Fins & Tail
- black tail
- Behaviour
- bottom dwellingschoolingsolitary
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Habitat & where to find it
- Range · Eastern Atlantic, Mediterranean, Black Sea
- Country only · 3
Found singly, or in large schools, over rock, sand, and seagrass beds, in shallow to deep waters.
Adult photos 3
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