Axillary bream
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Axillary bream ( Pagellus acarne ) |
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The axillary bream ( Pagellus acarne ) is a sea fish from the family of sea bream (Sparidae). The fish live in the Mediterranean and the eastern Atlantic from the Biscay to Senegal as well as in Madeira , the Azores and the Canary and Cape Verde Islands . Occasionally they are also caught on the coasts of Great Britain and Denmark .
features
The axillary sea bream reaches a maximum length of 36 centimeters and an average length of 25 centimeters. Their body is high-backed, pink in color and without vertical or horizontal stripes. There is a small black spot at the base of the pectoral fin . The continuous dorsal fin is supported by 12 to 13 hard rays and 10 to 12 soft rays. The short anal fin has three spine rays and 9 to 10 soft rays. The snout is longer than the diameter of the eyes.
Way of life
The axillary bream lives at depths of 40 to 500 meters, although it usually stays above a depth of 100 meters. It occurs over various seabeds, especially over sandy bottoms and over seagrass beds . Young fish live near the coast. The axillary bream is an omnivore that feeds primarily on worms, mollusks and small crustaceans . It is a major fishing fish . Like the sea bream , it is a proterandric hermaphrodite , which means that the male genital organs mature first and then the female ones.
literature
- Bent J. Muus, Jørgen G. Nielsen: The marine fish of Europe in the North Sea, Baltic Sea and Atlantic. Kosmos, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-440-07804-3 .
Web links
- Achselfleckbrasse on Fishbase.org (English)