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Sharpsnout sea bream (Lat. Diplodus puntazzo). Coastal species, lives in small schools above rocky and sandy bottom. Unlike the other breams, usually living in group, the sharpsnout seabream is a solitary fish, not attached to the territory, without den, which, in case of danger, prefers to escape. Juveniles leaves in meadows of Posidonia sp. and haunts in brackish waters. Haunts to 150 m deep and grows till 60 cm (2 kg), common 20-25 cm. It differs from the other breams, to which it morphologically resembles in the oval and compressed shape of the body, due to the profile of the snout. Feeds with algae, crabs, shellfish. Catches by trammel nets, fish-traps, harpoons and handlines.
Local name
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English name
Sharpsnout sea bream
Scientific name
Diplodus puntazzo
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Unlike the other breams, usually living in group, the sharpsnout seabream is a solitary fish
Weight
Up to 2 kg
Length
Up to 0.6 m
Life span
18 years
Nutrition
Feeds with algae, crabs, shellfish
Type of diet
Mainly carnivorous
IUCN vulnerability status
Least Concern (IUCN Red List)
Distribution
It is found throughout the Mediterranean, rare in Black Sea; Atlantic, common from Gibraltar to Sierra Leone, rare to the north (Bay of Biscay); absent in Madeira, present in the Canaries and the Cape Verde Is.