Sealife guideThe picarelSpicara smaris

Last updated on 02/16/2024 at 10:48 PM

Taxonomy

Common name: Picarel
French name: Picarel, jarret
Spanish name: Caramel
Scientific name: Spicara smaris (Linnaeus, 1758)
Family name: Sparidae
Order name: Perciformes
Class name: Actinopterygii

Description

The picarel has a spindle-shaped silvery body with dark brown vertical stripes and a characteristic quasi-rectangular black spot in the middle of its flanks.

The picarel (Spicara smaris) © Serg_dibrova | Dreamstime.com

Geographic range

The picarel lives in both Mediterranean and Black Sea waters.

Did you know ?

The picarel is listed as many other marine species within The IUCN Red List of threatened species. The picarel appears in the IUCN Red List since 2014 within the category Least Concern !

Within the same genus

Blotched picarel
(Spicara maena)

Within the same family

Australasian snapper
(Pagrus auratus)

Common two-banded seabream
(Diplodus vulgaris)

Gilt-head sea bream
(Sparus aurata)

Roman seabream
(Chrysoblephus laticeps)

Saddled seabream
(Oblada melanurus)

Saucereye porgy
(Calamus calamus)

Sheepshead porgy
(Calamus penna)

White seabream
(Diplodus sargus)

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(Neoglyphidodon melas)

Blackstriped angelfish
(Genicanthus lamarck)

Dragonface pipefish
(Corythoichthys haematopterus)

Longfin batfish
(Platax teira)

Onespot snapper
(Lutjanus monostigma)

Pearl toby
(Canthigaster margaritata)

Spotted drum
(Equetus punctatus)

Three spot angelfish
(Apolemichthys trimaculatus)

The marine species from Black sea

European conger eel
(Conger conger)

Picarel
(Spicara smaris)

Thornback ray
(Raja clavata)

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