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Common names: Choupa, Sargo-safia, Seifia
Occurrence: native
Salinity: brackish
Abundance: common (usually seen) | Ref: Veiga, P., J. Ribeiro, J.M.S. Gonçalves and K. Erzini, 2010
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Uses: no uses
Comments: Found in Tagus estuary (Ref. 51031). Recorded from the south and southwest coast (Ref. 85184).
National Checklist: Portugal
Country Information: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/po.html
National Fisheries Authority:
Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Hureau, J.-C., 1991
National Database: Portuguese Freshwater Fishes

Common names from other countries

Sar à tête noire, Sargo mojarra, Twoband bream, ... more

Classification / Names Nomi Comuni | Sinonimi | Catalog of Fishes(Genere, Specie) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

> Eupercaria/misc (Various families in series Eupercaria) > Sparidae (Porgies)
Etymology: Diplodus: Greek, diploos = twice + Greek, odous = teeth (Ref. 45335).

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

marino benthopelagico; oceanodromo (Ref. 51243); distribuzione batimetrica 0 - 160 m, usually 0 - 30 m (Ref. 13780). Subtropical; ? - 25°C (Ref. 130592); 50°N - 40°S, 26°W - 36°E

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Eastern Atlantic: Bay of Biscay to Cape Verde and the Canary Islands including the Mediterranean and Black Sea (off Bulgaria); also from Angola to South Africa.

Length at first maturity / Size / Peso / Age

Maturity: L_m 16.6 range ? - ? cm
Max length : 45.0 cm TL maschio/sesso non determinato; (Ref. 3397); common length : 22.0 cm TL maschio/sesso non determinato; (Ref. 3397); peso massimo pubblicato: 1.3 kg (Ref. 40637)

A euryhaline species inhabiting rocky and sometimes sandy bottoms to depths of 160 m, but more commonly in less than 50 m. The young are sometimes found in seagrass beds. Adults feed on crustaceans, worms and mollusks (Ref. 3688). Important food fish.

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Potentially hermaphroditic (Ref. 4781).

Main reference Upload your references | Bibliografia | Coordinatore | Collaboratori

Bauchot, M.-L. and J.-C. Hureau, 1990. Sparidae. p. 790-812. 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. 3688)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 18 August 2009

CITES (Ref. 128078)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Harmless

Human uses

Pesca: commerciale; Pesce da pesca sportiva: si; Acquario: Commerciale

FAO(Aquaculture systems: production; pesca: production; publication : search) | FishSource | Sea Around Us

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Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 15.9 - 21.6, mean 18.8 (based on 248 cells).

Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804): PD₅₀ = 0.5000 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].

Bayesian length-weight: a=0.01230 (0.01097 - 0.01380), b=3.05 (3.02 - 3.08), in cm Total Length, based on LWR estimates for this species (Ref. 93245).

Trophic level (Ref. 69278): 3.5 ±0.1 se; based on diet studies.

Resilienza (Ref. 120179): Medio, tempo minimo di raddoppiamento della popolazione 1.4 - 4.4 anni (K=0.26-0.4; tmax=6; tm=2).

Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153): Low to moderate vulnerability (33 of 100).

Climate Vulnerability (Ref. 125649): Low vulnerability (23 of 100).

Price category (Ref. 80766): Low.

Diplodus vulgaris (GeoffroySaint-Hilaire, 1817)