#2251 · 🐟 fish

Grey Wrasse

🇳🇱 Grijze lipvis ·Symphodus cinereus

LCleast concern 🐟 Fish 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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

1. © Frédéric ANDRE · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Frédéric ANDRE · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Xaime Beiro · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
4. © Federico Boscolo · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Antoni López-Arenas i Cama · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Maximilian Wagner · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Francesco Ricciardi · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © mariomuna · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The grey wrasse , Symphodus cinereus , is a species of wrasse native to the eastern Atlantic Ocean and along the coasts of the Mediterranean Sea to the Black Sea. 6 ft). 1 in). It is important to local peoples as a food fish and is popular as a game...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 1,004iNaturalist 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.
1,004 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre in 1788 (238 years ago).