Diagnostic Description
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Body oval, rather deep and compressed. Head profile smoothly rounded in adults but almost straight in young; a slight frontal hump in very large individuals; eye small, suborbital space wide. Cheeks scaly; scales also present on preopercle except at its posterior margin. Mouth low, slightly oblique. Several rows of canine-like teeth, outer row by far the strongest with 4 to 6 very well developed anterior teeth in each jaw. Gillrakers on first arch 9 or 10 lower and 8 or 9 upper. Dorsal fin with 11 spines and 11 or 12 soft rays, the spines increassing in length from the first to the fouth or fifth and subequal thereafter. Anal fin with 3 spines and 7 to 9 soft rays. Scales along lateral line 62 to 68. Colour in the young specimens greyish, spotted with black on back and upper sides, becoming pink with sexual maturity; old individuals are bluish grey and the dark spots become more or less diffuse with age. Some individuals have a yellow tinge behind the mouth and on the gill cover.
Distribution
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Mediterranean, most common south of 40° N (Spain, North Africa); Black Sea (very rare). Atlantic from Bay of Biscay to Cape Blanc and Madeira, exceptionally to British Isles. Elsewhere, southward to Senegal.
Size
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Maximum 100 cm; common to 50 cm
Brief Summary
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Benthopelagic (demersal behaviour).Inshore waters on rocky bottoms to 200 m, more common between 15 and 50 m. Young gregarious, the oldest solitary. Reproduction May (Mediterranean); gonochoric, some specimens hermaphroditic Carnivorous, young panktonophagous, adults eating fish, crustaceans and cephalopods.
Benefits
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Caught with bottom trawls, lines, traps (young) and sometimes trammel nets. Flesh highly esteemed. Marketed fesh or frozen; also used for fishmeal and oil.
Diagnostic Description
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Body oval and compressed. Canine teeth, with 4 to 6 anterior teeth very developed in each jaw.
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- Grace Tolentino Pablico
Life Cycle
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Gonochoric, but some specimens are hermaphroditic. Species of separated sexes (although some individuals may be hermaphrodite in young stages). In the Mediterranean, reproduction takes place between March and May, in areas near the coast. Embryo development lasts about 3 days at 17°C.
Morphology
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Dorsal spines (total): 11; Dorsal soft rays (total): 11 - 12; Analspines: 3; Analsoft rays: 7 - 9
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- Grace Tolentino Pablico
Trophic Strategy
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Inhabits hard bottoms (rock or rubble) down to 200 m depth. Usually found in shallow water less than 50 m deep (Ref. 9987). Adults solitary; young gregarious (Ref. 12482). Young fish caught with traps. Feeds on fish, mollusks and cephalopods.
Biology
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Inhabit hard bottoms (rock or rubble) down to 200 m depth. Usually found in shallow water less than 50 m deep (Ref. 9987). Adults solitary; young gregarious (Ref. 12482). Young fish caught with traps. Feed on fish, mollusks and cephalopods. Important food fish. Marketed fresh or frozen (Ref. 9987). Some attempts to culture this species have been successful. Due to low market supply, the potential for selling these fish from aquaculture operations seems to be good (Ref. 9987). A spear-fisherman cites a specimen caught in Greece (Corfu) with an overnight bottom-line about 1.60 m and 42 kg (Ref. 48271), but the identification cannot be verified.
- Recorder
- Christine Papasissi
Importance
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fisheries: commercial; aquaculture: commercial; gamefish: yes
- Recorder
- Christine Papasissi
Common dentex
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The common dentex (Dentex dentex) is a species of fish in the family Sparidae.[2]
Etymology
Genus and species Latin name Dentex is related to dentēs which means "teeth".[2]
Description
Adult dentex can reach a length of one metre (3 ft), and weight up to 16 kg (35 lb). The body is oval and compressed. Teeth are very developed in each jaw. Dentex have 11 dorsal spines: 11–12 dorsal soft rays; 3 anal spines: 7–9 anal soft rays. Adults are grey-blue, while young dentex have a slightly different livery, brown-blue with blue fins.[2]
Biology
Dentex is an active predator, feeding on other fish, mollusca and cephalopods. It is solitary for most of the year, but during reproduction it lives in groups for some weeks: fully-grown dentex stay together just two to three weeks during spring in the warmer water near the surface.[2]
Distribution and habitat
Dentex is common in the Mediterranean Sea (called sinarit in Turkish), but also seen in the Black Sea and the Eastern Atlantic Ocean from the British Isles to Mauritania, sometimes up to Senegal and Canary Islands. It lives in sandy or stony deeps, from just some metres/feet to 200 m (700 ft).[3][2]
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Common dentex: Brief Summary
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The common dentex (Dentex dentex) is a species of fish in the family Sparidae.
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