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SpeciesPerciformesSparidae
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🐟Gilt-head bream

Sparus aurata Linnaeus, 1758

La dorada (Sparus aurata) es una especie de pez perciforme de la familia Sparidae, muy consumida dentro de la gastronomía española. Su nombre común viene de la franja dorada característica que se encuentra entre sus dos ojos. Es una especie costera, llegándose a encontrar incluso en estuarios, y es típica de la pesca deportiva. Es un pez distribuido desde las islas británicas a Cabo Verde y por todo el Mar Mediterráneo, incluso el Mar Menor. Los jóvenes frecuentan zonas litorales y lagunas costeras mientras que los adultos prefieren aguas más profundas, normalmente por los 30 m de profundidad, aunque pueden llegar hasta los 150 m en época de reproducción. Se mueven entre las algas de zonas rocosas o superficies arenosas de los bajos fondos. Es una de las especies por excelencia dentro de la acuicultura marina.

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Also called
Sparus aurata, Snapper, Silver Seabream, Gilt-head Seabream
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2014.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
9.46 kg
Body length
0.35 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
11 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Gilt-head bream

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
9.46 kgrecord 17 kg · FishBase
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Body length
0.35 mrecord 0.7 m · FishBasetypical adult
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Record: largest individual on record

Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Maximum lifespan
11 yearsrecord 11 years · FishBase
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
3.7
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Source: FishBase · v25.04, estimate table · CC BY-NC 4.0

Diet
carnivoreaverage
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From trophic level 3.7 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.

Danger to humans
harmless
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Source: FishBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Volume l
9.5 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Gilt-head bream yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderPerciformes
  4. ›familySparidae
  5. ›genusSparus
  6. ›speciesSparus aurata
Full lineage
  1. superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
  2. orderAcanthomorphata
  3. orderSpariformes
  4. genusSparus
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
  7. classActinopteri
  8. subclassNeopterygii
  9. orderAcanthomorphata
  10. orderSpariformes
  11. genusSparus
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Sparus aurata (es), Sparus aurata (fr), Dorada (pl), ספרוס זהוב (he), Sparus aurata (it), Dourada (gl) … and 23 more languages
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