#2181 · 🐟 fish
Painted Comber
🇳🇱 Schrifttandbaars ·Serranus scriba
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what is it?
The painted comber ( Serranus scriba ) is a subtropical marine fish, classified in family Serranidae, the groupers and sea basses. It is found in the eastern Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Black Sea. Confusingly, a synonym of this species is Perca marina , but that name (as Sebastes marinus ) has incorrectly been used for a separate species, the rose fish.
base stats
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.
- 7,826 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Painted Comber
- Nederlands
- Schrifttandbaars
- scientific name
- Serranus scriba
- class
- Actinopterygii
- order
- Perciformes
- family
- Serranidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 7,208
- sightings worldwide
- 7,826
- GBIF records in NL
- 4
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Serranidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 118674, Wikidata Q2020774, GBIF 2388714, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.