Sparidae

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Sparidae
Temporal range:
Early Eocene
to present
Gilt-head bream (Sparus auratus)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Spariformes
Family: Sparidae
Rafinesque, 1810[1]
Genera

see text

Synonyms[2][1]
  • Centracanthidae Gill, 1893
  • Denticidae

Sparidae is a

ray-finned fishes belonging to the order Spariformes, the sea breams and porgies, although they were traditionally classified in the order Perciformes. They are found in shallow temperate and tropical waters around the world and are demersal
carnivores.

Taxonomy

Sparidae was first proposed as a family in 1818 by the French

naturalist Constantine Samuel Rafinesque.[1] Traditionally the taxa within the Spariformes were classified within the Perciformes, with some authorities using the term "Sparoid lineage" for the families Centracanthidae, Nemipteridae, Lethrinidae and Sparidae.[3] Since then the use of molecular phylogenetics in more modern classifications has meant that the Spariformes is recognised as a valid order within the Percomorpha containing six families, with Callanthidae, Sillaginidae and Lobotidae included.[2] Other workers have found that the Centracanthidae is synonymous with Sparidae and that the Spariformes contains only the remaining three families of the "Sparoid lineage".[4]

In the past workers recognised six

subfamilies within the Sparidae. These were Boopsinae, Denticinae, Diplodinae, Pagellinae, Pagrinae, and Sparinae. However, these taxa did not resolve as monophyletic in all the analyses undertaken. These analyses support Sparidae as a monophyletic family if Spicara, a genus formerly in the family Centracanthidae, was included. This meant that Spicara and Centracanthus were both now classified within Sparidae, so that Centracanthidae is a junior synonym of Sparidae.[2]

Etymology

Sparidae takes its name from its type genus, Sparus, that name coming from the Greek for its only species the gilt-head bream (Sparus aurata).[5]

Genera

Pagrus major, or madai, is an important food fish in Japan
Dentex fourmanoiri
Pagrus auratus

The family Sparidae contains about 155 species in 38 genera:

Fossil genera include:[7][8][9]

Characteristics

Sparidae breams have oblong, moderately deep and compressed bodies. The head is large, with a characteristic steep dorsal slant. There are no scales on the snout but there are scales on the cheeks. The

total length of 200 cm (79 in), while the smallest species is the cherry seabream (Polysteganus cerasinus).[13]

Distribution and habitat

Sparidae breams are found in tropical and temperate coastal waters around the world.[2] They are demersal fishes on the continental shelf and slope.[12] A few species are found in brackish water, and a few of these will enter fresh water.[2]

Biology

Sparidae breams are predatory with most feeding on benthic invertebrates.

protogynous.[14]

Fisheries

Sparids are highly regarded as food fish and are important target species for commercial fisheries wherever they occur. Between 1990 and 1995, the FAO Yearbook of Fishery Statistics reported that the annual weight of landings was between 2,170 and 4,020 t (2,140 and 3,960 long tons; 2,390 and 4,430 short tons) of sparids in the Western Central Pacific.[12]

Cookery

The most celebrated of the breams in cookery are the gilt-head bream and the common dentex.[15]

See also

  • Porgie fishing

References

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Look up porgy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
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  7. ^ "PBDB Taxon". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-04-03.
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  11. ^ David, Lorre R. (1946). "Some Typical Upper Eogene Fish Scales from California". Contributions to Paleontology. IV.
  12. ^ a b c K.E. Carpenter (2001). "Sparidae". In Carpenter, K.E. and Niem, V.H. (eds.). FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific. Volume 5. Bony fishes part 3 (Menidae to Pomacentridae) (PDF). FAO Rome. p. 2990.
  13. ^ a b Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2023). "Sparidae" in FishBase. October 2023 version.
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