Cape White Seabream
Diplodus capensis
Also known as: Blacktail, Sargo, Seabream, White Seabream
- Blacktail
- Sargo
- Seabream
- White Seabream
Overview
Found singly, or in small schools, around rock and sandy substrates of intertidal surf zones, over sandy beaches and mouths of estuaries.
Juveniles over shallow reefs.
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
- black stripesspotsstripes
- Behaviour
- bottom dwellingschoolingsolitary
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Habitat & where to find it
- Range · Western Indian Ocean, Southeast Atlantic, Mediterranean
- Country only · 1
Found singly, or in small schools, around rock and sandy substrates of intertidal surf zones, over sandy beaches and mouths of estuaries.
Adult photos 1
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