Red porgy
Encyclopedia
The red porgy or common seabream, is a species of fish
in the family Sparidae
. Although found in a wide variety of locations that range from Europe
to the Caribbean
, its status is considered endangered
. Also known along the Gulf Coast as White Snapper, even though it is not a true Snapper.
Fish
Fish are a paraphyletic group of organisms that consist of all gill-bearing aquatic vertebrate animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish, as well as various extinct related groups...
in the family Sparidae
Sparidae
The Sparidae is a family of fish, included in the order Perciformes. The fish of the family are commonly called sea breams and porgies . The sheepshead, scup, and red sea bream are species in this family. They are found in shallow temperate and tropical waters and are bottom-dwelling carnivores....
. Although found in a wide variety of locations that range from Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
to the Caribbean
Caribbean
The Caribbean is a crescent-shaped group of islands more than 2,000 miles long separating the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, to the west and south, from the Atlantic Ocean, to the east and north...
, its status is considered endangered
Endangered species
An endangered species is a population of organisms which is at risk of becoming extinct because it is either few in numbers, or threatened by changing environmental or predation parameters...
. Also known along the Gulf Coast as White Snapper, even though it is not a true Snapper.
Source
- Huntsman, G. 1996. Pagrus pagrus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 4 August 2007.