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Sparidae
Calamus bajonado
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Sparidae
Genera

Many, see text

The Sparidae is a family of fish, included in the order Perciformes. The fish of the family are commonly called breams and porgies (North America). The sheepshead, scup, and red sea bream are species in this family. They live in shallow temperate waters and are bottom-dwelling carnivores. Most species possess grinding, molar-like teeth. [1]

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[edit] Species

The family Sparidae contains 125 species in 37 genera and is classified here according to Fishbase.

[edit] Cookery

The most celebrated of the breams in cookery are the gilt-head bream and the dentex.[3]

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ Johnson, G.D. & Gill, A.C. (1998). Paxton, J.R. & Eschmeyer, W.N.. ed. Encyclopedia of Fishes. San Diego: Academic Press. pp. 184. ISBN 0-12-547665-5.  Eating the head is known to cause hallucinations, lasting many days.
  2. ^ Iwatsuki, Kimura & Yoshino (2006). "A new sparid, Acanthopagrus akazakii, from New Caledonia with notes on nominal species of Acanthopagrus". Ichthyological Research 53 (4): 406–414. doi:10.1007/s10228-006-0365-z. 
  3. ^ Alan Davidson, Mediterranean Seafood, Penguin, 1972. ISBN 0-14-046174-4, pp. 86-108.



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