#2235 · 🐟 fish

Black Seabream

🇳🇱 Zeekarper ·Spondyliosoma cantharus

LCleast concern 🐟 Fish 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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

1. © whodden · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © MatiasG · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © mariomuna · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Dennis Rabeling · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
5. © Julien Renoult · CC BY 4.0
6. © mariomuna · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Brunswick Terrace, Weymouth, England, GB:© donnymidas · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Pyrénées-Orientales, Languedoc-Roussillon, FR:© Hubert Lagrange · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Playa Blanca, Provinz Las Palmas, Spanien:© Susanne Spindler · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
10. Ain Benian, DZ-AL, DZ:© mmissoum · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The black seabream ( Spondyliosoma cantharus ) is a species of Sparidae fishes. They are recognisable by their oval compressed body and jaws containing 4-6 rows of slender teeth which are larger at the front. They are silvery in colour with blue and pink tinges and broken longitudinal gold lines. They can reach a maximum size of 60 cm in length. They live in northern Europe and in the Mediterranean, usually found on the inshore shelf at depths varying...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 1,569iNaturalist 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.
1,569 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).