Sea bream

Sea bream
	Bream Mackerel ( Brama brama )
Systematics
Sub-cohort :	Neoteleostei
	Acanthomorphata
	Spinefish (Acanthopterygii)
	Perch relatives (Percomorphaceae)
Order :	Scombriformes
Family :	Sea bream
Scientific name
	Bramidae
	Lowe , 1836

The sea bream (Bramidae), also bream , Pomfret or gold heads called, are a family from the order of Scombriformes and live in temperate and tropical zones of the Atlantic and Indo-Pacific .

features

The laterally flattened, mostly high-backed animals only have a long, in some species very high or sail-shaped dorsal fin . The anal fin usually has the same shape as the dorsal fin and gives the animals a symmetrical appearance. The caudal fin is round in juvenile fish and forked in adults. Sea bream live in small groups but are nowhere common. The smallest species Brama dussumieri is only 20 centimeters long, the largest species Taractichthys longipinnis is said to be 85 centimeters to one meter long.

Systematics

Taractichthys longipinnis

Pteraclis carolinus

Pteraclis velifera

There are twenty species in seven genera and two subfamilies:

Subfamily Braminae ; Dorsal and anal fins of adults are scaled and cannot be fully attached, pelvic fins on the chest.
- Genus Brama
  - Brama australis Valenciennes , 1838 .
  - Bream mackerel ( Brama brama ( Bonnaterre , 1788) ).
  - Brama caribbea Mead, 1972 .
  - Brama dussumieri Cuvier , 1831 .
  - Brama japonica Hilgendorf, 1878 .
  - Brama myersi Mead, 1972 .
  - Brama orcini Cuvier, 1831 .
  - Brama pauciradiata Moteki, Fujita & Last, 1995 .
- Genus Eumegistus
  - Eumegistus brevorti ( Poey , 1860) .
  - Eumegistus illustris Jordan & Jordan , 1922 .
- Genus Taractes
  - Taractes asper Lowe, 1843 .
  - Taractes rubescens ( Jordan & Evermann, 1887) .
- Genus Taractichthys
  - Taractichthys longipinnis (Lowe, 1843) .
  - Taractichthys steindachneri (Döderlein, 1883) .
- Genus Xenobrama
  - Xenobrama microlepis Yatsu & Nakamura, 1989 .
Subfamily Pteraclinae ; Dorsal and anal fins high and without scales and completely attachable, pelvic fins often throaty.
- Genus Pteraclis
  - Pteraclis aesticola ( Jordan & Snyder, 1901) .
  - Pteraclis carolinus Valenciennes, 1833 .
  - Pteraclis velifera ( Pallas , 1770) .
- Genus Pterycombus
  - Pterycombus brama frieze, 1837 .
  - Pterycombus petersii (Hilgendorf, 1878) .

literature

Joseph S. Nelson , Terry C. Grande, Mark VH Wilson: Fishes of the World. 5th edition. John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken NJ 2016, ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6 .

Web links

Commons : Sea Bream (Bramidae) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Sea bream on Fishbase.org (English)