Blue-spotted sea bream (Lat. Pagrus coeruleostrictus). Coastal species whose leaves above muddy, sandy and hard bottom. It prefers to swim close to the rocky and pebble bottom. Grows till 90 cm (10 kg), common 30-50 cm and haunts to 200 m deep. Feeds with shellfish, fish and crabs. It reaches sexual maturity at 2 years old. Spawning migration occurs parallel…
The Mediterranean scallop (Lat. Pecten jacobaeus). This species appears to be endemic to the Mediterranean Sea and it lives on a muddy bottom. It usually reaches a length of about 120–140 millimetres. The two valves have different shapes. They show 14 to 16 ribs (radial wrinkles) with a more or less rectangular cross section. The inside of the valves is…
Red scorpionfish (Lat. Scorpaena scrofa). Benthic species, leaves above rocky, sandy, muddy and bottom with meadows of Posidonia sp. It haunts to 400 m but common 20-100 m deep. It is the biggest Mediterranean scorpionfish and it grows till 50 cm (3 kg), common 20-30 cm. The poison glands, one per ray, are protected by a sheath which breaks at…
Mediterranean moray (Lat. Muraena helena). Leaves above rocky coast with caves and crevices to depth of 5-50 m. Grows to 130 cm (8 kg), common 60-100 cm. The body, serpentiform and without scales, covered by resistant and slimy skin due to the mucus secreted, is cylindrical in the first half and then more and more laterally compressed towards the tail.…
European sea bass (Lat. Dicentrarchus labrax). Coastal species that is tolerant of a wide range of temperatures and salinities and frequent coastal inshore waters, estuaries and brackish water lagoons. Common in brackish water, to a depth of 20 m. It grows to 1 m and 14 kg, often 20-55 cm. Individual is silvery grey in colour and sometimes a dark-bluish colour…
Grey triggerfish (Lat. Balistes capriscus). It thrives above the rocky bottoms of coastlines, up to 100 m in depth. It is mostly solitary fish, but during the mating can be found in small groups. Grows to 60 cm (often around 40 cm), and 6.2 kg. The small beak-like mouth at the tip of the snout has fleshy lips. The body is laterally compressed…
