Striped bream
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Striped Bream ( Spondyliosoma cantharus ) |
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The striped bream ( Spondyliosoma cantharus ), also often called striped bream in the singular , is a fish from the sea bream family (Sparidae), which is native to the eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean .
features
The striped bream has a laterally flattened and high-backed body and reaches an average body length of up to 30 to a maximum of 60 centimeters. The head has a pointed snout with a terminal mouth. The back and the flanks are light gray and have a metallic sheen and have numerous lighter, partially interrupted longitudinal stripes and six to nine darker cross bars. Young fish in particular have darker, often bruises on their backs. The caudal fin is dark gray.
The undivided dorsal fin has 11 hard fin spines and then 11 to 13 soft, the anal fin 3 hard and 9 to 11 soft fin rays. The pelvic fins are on the chest.
distribution
The striped bream lives in the eastern Atlantic from Norway to North Africa as well as in the Mediterranean and rarely in the Black Sea . It can also be found in the coastal areas of the Cape Verde Islands and the Canary Islands .
Way of life
The fish are sociable and at times form large migrating schools. They live in the coastal area mainly on sandy and rocky soil as well as over Posidonia meadows. The preferred depth is between 15 and 50 meters, rarely you can find them in water depths of up to 300 meters. They feed on invertebrates, mostly small crustaceans, and algae.
Striped bream , like other sea bream , including the red bream ( Pagellus erythrinus ), are so-called proterogynous hermaphrodites. This means that all fish become sexually mature as females and later transform into males. The spawning season of the striped bream is February to May. During this time the milkers (males) cut small pits in the sandy soil, in which the rogner (females) lay their sticky clutches. The male takes care of the brood by guarding the eggs and fanning them with water. The fry hatch after about nine days.
Systematics
The striped bream is one of two species in the genus Spondyliosoma .
Individual evidence
literature
- Andreas Vilcinskas : Fish - Central European freshwater species and marine fish of the North and Baltic Seas . BLV Verlagsgesellschaft, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-405-15848-6 .
Web links
- Striped bream on Fishbase.org (English)
- www.marseille-sympa.com: image