Croatia country information

Common names: Cipavica, Gavorica, Gira oštrulja
Occurrence: native
Salinity: marine
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Uses: no uses
Comments: Species maena and flexuosa observed to have some difference, with the former more blue and can grow bigger, it spawns in September on poseidonia and observed to be fighthing for mates; the latter spawns in winter at depts of 30 -50 meters on different bottom (lignja@submania.hr, pers. comm. 09/2006).
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Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Bauchot, M.-L., 1987
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Common names from other countries

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Classificação / Names Nomes comuns | Sinónimos | Catalog of Fishes(Género, Espécies) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

> Eupercaria/misc (Various families in series Eupercaria) > Sparidae (Porgies)
Etymology: Spicara: Latin, spicare = furnished with spike (Ref. 45335).
More on author: Linnaeus.

Issue
Spicara flexuosa Rafinesque, 1810 is a valid species (Ref. 124120). Species page to be created.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecologia

marinhas; intervalo de profundidade 30 - 130 m (Ref. 7349). Subtropical; 47°N - 28°N, 19°W - 42°E

Distribuição Países | Áreas FAO | Ecossistemas | Ocorrências | Point map | Introduções | Faunafri

Eastern Atlantic: Portugal, Morocco, and Canary Islands including the Mediterranean and Black Sea.

Length at first maturity / Tamanho / Peso / Idade

Maturity: L_m 11.5 range ? - ? cm
Max length : 25.0 cm SL macho/indeterminado; (Ref. 6518); 21.0 cm SL (female)

Adults are found in the neritic zone, commonly over Posidonia beds and on sand, muddy and rock bottoms down to about 100 m (Ref. 6518, 124120). They are distributed at depths of 30m to 90m (Ref. 56124). Feed on zooplankton. Are protogynous hermaphrodites. A demersal spawner (Ref. 124120).

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturities | Reprodução | Spawnings | Egg(s) | Fecundities | Larvas

Sex reversal occurs at lengths over 10.9 cm TL in the northeastern Mediterranean (Ref. 93202). Also Ref. 103751.

Referência principal Upload your references | Referências | Coordenador | Colaboradores

Heemstra, P.C., 1990. Centracanthidae. p. 768-772. In J.C. Quero, J.C. Hureau, C. Karrer, A. Post and L. Saldanha (eds.) Check-list of the fishes of the eastern tropical Atlantic (CLOFETA). JNICT, Lisbon; SEI, Paris; and UNESCO, Paris. Vol. 2. (Ref. 7349)

Categoria na Lista Vermelha da IUCN (Ref. 130435)

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Spicara maena (Linnaeus, 1758)