Sealife guideThe Perciformes orderThe taxonomy of marine species

Explore the taxonomy of the sea vertebrates including the cetaceans like the whales or the dolphins, the sea birds, the fish, the sharks and the sea turtles !

Harlequin bass
(Serranus tigrinus)

Island grouper
(Mycteroperca fusca)

Leopard grouper
(Mycteroperca rosacea)

Painted comber
(Serranus scriba)

Slender grouper
(Anyperodon leucogrammicus)

Yellow-edged lyretail
(Variola louti)

The Sparidae family, commonly known as porgies or sea breams, includes about 155 species. These species are found particularly in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific oceans as well as the Mediterranean sea.

Australasian snapper
(Pagrus auratus)

Blotched picarel
(Spicara maena)

Common two-banded seabream
(Diplodus vulgaris)

Gilt-head sea bream
(Sparus aurata)

Jolthead porgy
(Calamus bajonado)

Picarel
(Spicara smaris)

Roman seabream
(Chrysoblephus laticeps)

Saddled seabream
(Oblada melanurus)

Salema
(Sarpa salpa)

Saucereye porgy
(Calamus calamus)

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