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Annular sea bream (Lat. Diplodus annularis). A coastal species that lives above the sandy and muddy bottom in shoals, less often rocky, and in seagrass meadows. It sets to a depth of 90 m and grows up to 24 cm (0.37 kg), usually 8-15 cm. The colour, bright silvery with a slight tendency to the yellow, gets more intense in the adults and reinforces with mimetic vertical dark bands when the animal is menaced. Adults feed on demersal invertebrates and juveniles on plant foods. It is fished with a hoe, tugs, stand, tip and small sport fishing tools.
Local name
Špar
English name
Annular sea bream
Scientific name
Diplodus annularis
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The most characteristic element is the black spot not edged of white towards the caudal peduncle
Weight
Up to 0.37 kg
Length
Up to 0.24 m
Life span
7 years
Nutrition
Feeds on demersal invertebrates and juveniles on plant foods
Type of diet
Omnivorous
IUCN vulnerability status
Least Concern (IUCN Red List)
Distribution
Is widespread in the Mediterranean Sea, in the Black Azov Seas and in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean: Madeira, Canary Islands, also off the coast of Portugal, north to the Bay of Biscay

