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Sparidae [′spar·ə‚dē]

(vertebrate zoology)

A family of perciform fishes in the suborder Percoidei, including the porgies.

Sparidae

(porgies), a family of fishes of the order Perciformes. The tall, laterally compressed body is rounded or elongate; it ranges in length from 10 cm to 1.5 m. The back is arched. The coloration is bright and varied. The mouth is in the form of a straight slit; the teeth are numerous and of various shapes, depending on the mode of feeding (predacious, planktivorous, herbivorous). There is a single dorsal fin; its anterior rays are powerful spines that are retractible into a groove on the back.

There are more than 30 genera of porgies, distributed in the temperate and tropical waters of the world ocean. The fishes live close to shore in shallow bays and inlets; they sometimes enter the mouth of rivers. Porgies are only rarely encountered far offshore. Nine species, from eight genera, are found in the waters of the USSR (Black Sea, Sea of Azov, Sea of Japan). The species include representatives of the genera Dentex, Pagrus, and Diplodus. All porgies are hermaphroditic. Most species are commercially valuable.

REFERENCES

Svetovidov, A. N. Ryby Chernogo moria. Moscow-Leningrad, 1964.
Nikol’skii, G. V. Chastnaia ikhtiologiia, 3rd ed. Moscow, 1971.

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This sparid is one of the most abundant, potentially exploitable reef fishes in the northeastern GOM but is only lightly fished there, entirely by hook-and-line gear.

No evidence of bias from fish behavior in the selectivity of size and ... by DeVries, Douglas A. / Fishery Bulletin

The application of yield-per-recruit models to two South African sparid reef species, with special consideration to sex change.

Biology and assessment of the painted sweetlips (Diagramma pictum ... by Grandcourt, Edwin M.; Abdessalaam, Thabit Al Z.; Shamsi, Ahmed Al T.; Francis, Franklin / Fishery Bulletin

Abstract--The carpenter seabream (Argyrozona argyrozona) is an endemic South African sparid that comprises an important part of the handline fishery.

Reproductive biology of carpenter seabream (Argyrozona argyrozona) ... by Brouwer, Stephen L.; Griffiths, Marc. H. / Fishery Bulletin

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