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Spicara
Sign in to saveSpicara is a genus of ray-finned fish belonging to the family Sparidae, which includes the seabreams and porgies. These fishes are found in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. The species in the genus are known as picarels.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Spicara is referenced by 17 other articles, and connects out to Algeria, Azerbaijan and Moldova.
Vinony files it under Marine fish genera, Sparidae and Spariform fish genera.
Its subject is documented across 14 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
Blotched Picarel
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderPerciformes
- FamilySparidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 15
- With media
- 2
- Family
- Sparidae
- Collections
- CUMV, NHMUK, CAS, USNM, GNM, ODU
- Recorded in
- Ghana, United Kingdom, Portugal, Lebanon, France, Italy, Gabon
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Centracanthidae
- Image
- Spicara maena male spawning.jpg
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- Spicara
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- Spicara
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- topic's main category
- Category:Spicara
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Taxonomy
- Etymology
- Species
- Characteristics
- Distribution
- References
Spicara is a genus of ray-finned fish belonging to the family Sparidae, which includes the seabreams and porgies. These fishes are found in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. The species in the genus are known as picarels.
== Taxonomy == Spicara was first proposed as a monospecific genus in 1810 by the French naturalist and polymath Constantine Samuel Rafinesque when he described Spicara flexuosa as a new species. Rafinesque gave the type locality of S. flexuosa as Sicily. The genera Spicara and Centracanthus were formerly classified within the family Centracanthidae but phylogenetic analyses recovered the family Sparidae as paraphyletic if Spicara was not included within it. The 5th edition of Fishes of the World classifies the picarels in the family Sparidae within the order Spariformes by the 5th edition of Fishes of the World. Some authorities classify this genus in the subfamily Boopsinae, but the 5th edition of Fishes of the World does not recognise subfamilies within the Sparidae.
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