Sea Bream
Sea Bream
Sparidae
CommonSparidaeHarmless
ID points
- Body deep and flattened side to side, with a smoothly curved back
- Steep head profile, small mouth with molar-like teeth
- Silvery colour with a pink flush and neat regular scales
Basics
- Family
- Sparidae
- Length
- 25–60 cm
- Depth
- 1-150 m
- Regions
- Indo-Pacific reefs · Caribbean & W. Atlantic
- Distribution
- Inshore waters of warm seas worldwide
- Habitat
- Inshore rocky and sandy bottoms
- Diet
- Molluscs and crustaceans
Easily confused with
SnapperSpindle-shaped and slightly deep body, with a shallowly forked tail fin
Coral HindOrange-red ground covered with small blue dots edged in dark
Coral TroutOrange-red ground covered in tiny blue spotsFun fact
Some species are protandrous hermaphrodites: the young fish begin life as males and can turn female once they mature, which makes them natural masters of the sex change.
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