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Teleostei (teleosts) > Eupercaria/misc (Various families in series Eupercaria) > Sparidae (Porgies)
Etymology: Pagellus: Diminutive of Latin, pager, derived from Greek, pagros = a fish, Dentex sp. (Ref. 45335).
More on author: Risso.

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

Marine; benthopelagic; oceanodromous (Ref. 51243); depth range ? - 500 m (Ref. 4781), usually 40 - 100 m (Ref. 35388). Subtropical; 58°N - 12°N, 26°W - 36°E

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Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea: Bay of Biscay to Senegal, Madeira, the Canary Islands, Cape Verde; rare in the British Isles but recorded occasionally off Denmark. Azores (Ref. 44330).

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Maturity: L_m 15.0 range ? - ? cm
Max length : 36.0 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 4781); common length : 25.0 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 4781)

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Dorsal spines (total): 12 - 13; Dorsal soft rays (total): 10 - 12; Anal spines: 3; Anal soft rays: 9 - 10. Body tall without stripes but with a black spot at the pectoral fin base (Ref. 35388).

Adults inhabit various types of bottoms, especially seagrass beds and sand down to 500 m depth, but more common between 40 and 100 m. The young are found nearer to the shore. Omnivorous, but prefer worms, mollusks and small crustaceans (Ref. 3688). Important food fish.

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Most individuals are first males, then become females at a size of about 24 to 30 cm (Ref. 2715) or 17 to 29 cm TL; 2 to 7 years (eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea) (Ref. 4781). Also Ref. 28504.

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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: 17 August 2009

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Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Harmless

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Fisheries: commercial; gamefish: yes

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Preferred temperature (Ref. 123201): 12 - 18.4, mean 14.8 °C (based on 156 cells).

Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804): PD₅₀ = 0.5156 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].

Bayesian length-weight: a=0.01096 (0.00949 - 0.01266), b=3.06 (3.03 - 3.09), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this species (Ref. 93245).

Trophic level (Ref. 69278): 3.8 ±0.0 se; based on diet studies.

Generation time: 3.7 (2.6 - 5.2) years. Estimated as median ln(3)/K based on 10 growth studies.

Resilience (Ref. 120179): Medium, minimum population doubling time 1.4 - 4.4 years (K=0.17-0.23; tm=2-3; tmax=7; Fec=85,000).

Prior r = 0.59, 95% CL = 0.39 - 0.88, Based on 1 full stock assessment.

Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153): Moderate vulnerability (37 of 100).

Climate Vulnerability (Ref. 125649): High vulnerability (62 of 100).

Price category (Ref. 80766): Medium.

Nutrients (Ref. 124155): Calcium = 119 [60, 236] mg/100g; Iron = 0.555 [0.324, 0.940] mg/100g; Protein = 19.6 [18.5, 20.9] %; Omega3 = 0.45 [0.29, 0.67] g/100g; Selenium = 81.7 [36.5, 172.1] μg/100g; VitaminA = 13.2 [3.2, 61.8] μg/100g; Zinc = 0.485 [0.358, 0.728] mg/100g (wet weight); based on nutrient studies.

Pagellus acarne (Risso, 1827)