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Bony fish

White Seabream

Diplodus sargus

Also known as: Blacktail, Blacktail Seabream, Sargo, Seabream

LCLeast ConcernIUCN Red List, 2014
LIFE STAGE
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Adult
@JarJar · Isola Palmaria / La Spezia / North Italy, Italy · May 20111 / 3

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Overview

Found singly or in small schools, over rock and sandy areas of intertidal surf zones, mouths of estuaries and in rock-pools.

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

COLOURS
Pattern
black spotspotsstripes
Behaviour
bottom dwellingschoolingsolitary

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Habitat & where to find it

Where the adult stage lives, and where its photos were taken.

  • Range · Eastern Atlantic, Mediterranean, Black Sea
  • Exact location · 1
  • Country only · 2
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Found singly or in small schools, over rock and sandy areas of intertidal surf zones, mouths of estuaries and in rock-pools.

RANGE
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Adult photos 3

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    Taxonomy

    1. kingdomAnimalia
    2. phylumChordata
    3. classTeleostei
    4. orderEupercaria incertae sedis
    5. familySparidae
    6. genusDiplodus
    7. speciesDiplodus sargus (Linnaeus, 1758)

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    More in the family

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    Common Pandora

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    1 photo

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    1 photo

    Gilthead Seabream

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    2 photos

    Grass Porgy

    Calamus arctifrons

    2 photos

    Haffara Seabream

    Rhabdosargus haffara

    1 photo