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Ichthyologists study the inhabitants of rivers and lakes, but do not forget the inhabitants of salt waters. Often, fish from different water areas will be united by common names, and their relationship may not be at all, they will belong to different families, and sometimes even classes. Sea bream is one of the brightest representatives of the salty waters of our planet, known to many under the name dorado. What a resident is and what features he has we will study together.
Habitat
The name of the fish speaks for itself, they live in the seas and oceans, are common in tropical, subtropical, temperate waters throughout the globe. Huge populations can boast of the waters off the coast of Turkey, Spain, Greece, Italy. The Pacific waters near the Japanese Islands are also densely populated by this ichthy inhabitant. The family is represented by pelagic varieties of the open ocean. Reproduction occurs in warmer waters; for this, the annual migration of sexually mature individuals is carried out.
Russian anglers can also try their luck in catching this type of fish, for this it is worth going to the Murmansk coast of the Barents Sea, from Kamchatka to the Commander Islands the catch will also be good.
The fish of this family is an important commercial product, but not all types of bream are subject to catch.
Appearance
It will be difficult to confuse it with other fish of the seas and oceans, they have structural features and behavior in the water. Distinctive are:
- sizes of individuals, usually large and medium ones up to 60 cm long come across in the net of trawlers;
- only two species reach a decent weight with a relatively small length, Brama brama and Taractichthys longipinnis can weigh more than 6 kg and have no more than 1 m body.
Otherwise, the appearance of the marine representative is almost identical.
Scales
In all representatives, it is large, there are spiny outgrowths and keels, which makes them prickly. very millet gets hurt, it’s enough to pick up the caught representative.
Body
Flattened on the sides, with high outlines. The fins are arranged symmetrically, as in the freshwater relative.
Depending on age, an adult bream has from 36 to 54 vertebrae.
Head
The head is large in size, it has large eyes and a mouth, scales are located on the entire surface. The upper jaw is much wider than the lower jaw, scales are abundantly present.
Fins
The description of these body parts is best presented in the form of a table:
| fin view | description |
| dorsal | long, first rays completely devoid of branching |
| anal | of sufficient length, does not have prickly rays |
| chest | long and pterygoid in most species |
| abdominal | located on the throat or under the chest |
| tail | strongly forked |
It is worth noting that the dorsal and anal are very similar to each other in all species.
Features
Breams from the seas and oceans have nothing to do with freshwater cyprinids, they are representatives of a different family and even order. The name was received only for some external similarity. Officially, fish belong to the Brahm family of oceanic fish of the perch order. The family has 7 genera, which include more than 20 species. A more detailed classification will not hurt anyone to know.
The division of sea bream into genera and species
Any book with marine life will tell you that bream from the sea and the ocean has two subfamilies, which consist of genera and species. Fans of the ichthyofauna study them in detail and we will try to figure it out.
Saltwater bream as a family is divided into:
- Subfamily Braminae. In sexually mature individuals, the anal and dorsal fins are in scales, therefore they do not fold, the ventral fins are located under the pectoral fins.
- o Genus Brama—Sea breams:
- Australis;
- Brama brama or Atlantic;
- Caribbea – Caribbean;
- Dussumieri – Duyusumier bream;
- Japonica – Japanese or Pacific
- Myersi – Myers bream;
- Orcini – tropical;
- Paucyradiata
- o Rod Eumegistus:
- Brevorts;
- Illustrious
- the Род Taractes:
- Aspen;
- Blushing
- o Rod Taractichthys:
- Longipinis;
- Steindachner
- the Род Xenobrama:
- Microlepis.
- The subfamily Pteraclinae is distinguished by folding fins on the back and anal, they are completely lacking scales. The abdominals are located on the throat in front of the chest.
- o Rod Pteraclis:
- Aesticola;
- Carolinus;
- Velifera.
- o Rod Pterycombus:
- Gate;
- Petersii.
- o Rod Pteraclis:
- o Genus Brama—Sea breams:
Each of the representatives will have both something in common with other individuals, and differ from them. The name dorado is familiar to many gourmets and lovers of sea delicacies, this is precisely our mysterious bream from the depths of the sea.
We figured out what kind of fish a sea bream is, where to go for it, we also know. It remains to collect gear and go fishing for him.