#2184 · 🐟 fish

Saddled Seabream

🇳🇱 Zadelzeebrasem ·Oblada melanurus

LCleast concern 🐟 Fish 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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

1. © whodden · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © whodden · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Dennis Rabeling · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
4. © Dennis Rabeling · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
5. © Kai · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. 7R56+4M7, Hurghada 2, Al-Bahr al-Ahmar 1973525, Egypt:© naty603_s · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Baie de Saint-Laurent, Cap-d'Ail, FR:© greensxm · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Ionian Islands, Peloponnese, Western Greece and the Ionian Islands, Greece:© Falk Viczian Solarboot-Projekte gGmbH · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Blue Lagoon, Ghajnsielem, Gozo and Comino, MT:© eloisemarshall · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Tatinja uvala, Split-Dalmatia, HR:© katerinabrad · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The saddled seabream ( Oblada melanura ), also called the saddle bream or oblade , is a species of fish of the family Sparidae. It is monotypic in the genus Oblada .

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 6,914iNaturalist 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.
6,914 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).