Dr. Robert A. Patzner, Österreich
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Lithognathus mormyrus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Distribution
Eastern Atlantic: Bay of Biscay, Strait of Gibraltar and Mediterranean, Black, and Azov seas to Cape of Good Hope, South Africa and the Mozambique Channel.
Also found around the Canary Islands, Cape Verde and Madeira Is.
Western Indian Ocean: Red Sea; southern Mozambique to the Cape of Good Hope; not found in tropical east Africa.
Biology
Found on the shelf, over sandy and muddy bottoms as well as seagrass-beds and estuaries. Gregarious, sometimes forming sizeable schools. Feeds on worms, mollusks and small crustaceans. Protandric hermaphrodite. Flesh excellent; sold fresh and dried.
Synonymised names:
Pagellus goreensis Valenciennes, 1830
Pagellus mormyrus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Sparus mormyrus Linnaeus, 1758
Distribution
Eastern Atlantic: Bay of Biscay, Strait of Gibraltar and Mediterranean, Black, and Azov seas to Cape of Good Hope, South Africa and the Mozambique Channel.
Also found around the Canary Islands, Cape Verde and Madeira Is.
Western Indian Ocean: Red Sea; southern Mozambique to the Cape of Good Hope; not found in tropical east Africa.
Biology
Found on the shelf, over sandy and muddy bottoms as well as seagrass-beds and estuaries. Gregarious, sometimes forming sizeable schools. Feeds on worms, mollusks and small crustaceans. Protandric hermaphrodite. Flesh excellent; sold fresh and dried.
Synonymised names:
Pagellus goreensis Valenciennes, 1830
Pagellus mormyrus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Sparus mormyrus Linnaeus, 1758
