#2216 · 🐟 fish

Bogue

🇳🇱 Bokvis ·Boops boops

LCleast concern 🐟 Fish 📍 in Europe, not in NL

8 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Bernat Garrigós · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Massimiliano Principato · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Philip Mark Osso · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Sarah Faulwetter · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
5. © Emanuele Santarelli · CC BY-SA 4.0
6. © Julien Renoult · CC BY 4.0
7. © whodden · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © whodden · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

ɒps/; Greek: βόωψ boōps , literally "cow-eye"), commonly called a bogue , is a species of seabream native to the eastern Atlantic. Its common name in most languages refers to its large ("bug") eyes. It is found off the coasts of Europe, Africa, the Azores and the Canary Islands, from Norway to Angola, and in the Mediterranean and Black Seas. The species avoids brackish waters such as the Baltic Sea. A demersal and semi-pelagic feeder, it...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 2,499iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
2,499 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).