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Bar (Dicentrarchus labrax) (Ifremer 00735 84702) (cropped)🐟

Photo: Olivier Dugornay · CC BY 4.0

SpeciesPerciformesMoronidae
Fish

🐟European seabass

Dicentrarchus labrax (Linnaeus, 1758)

European seabass, also known as branzino, European bass, sea bass, common bass, white bass, capemouth, white salmon, white mullet, sea dace, levrek or loup de mer, is a primarily ocean-going fish native to the waters off Europe's western and southern and Africa's northern coasts, though it can also be found in shallow coastal waters and river mouths during the summer months and late autumn. It is one of only six species in its family, Moronidae, collectively called the temperate basses.

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Measurements
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≈ 1/9th of your weight
Also called
Bass, bass, White Salmon, White Mullet, King Of The Mullets, Capemouth, Common Bass, European Bass, Sea Dace, Sea Perch
Conservation status
NTNear threatened

IUCN Red List assessment, 2024.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
6.6 kg
Body length
0.5 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
15 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the European seabass

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

Body mass
6.6 kgrecord 12 kg · FishBase
AnAge
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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
0.5 mrecord 1.03 m · FishBasetypical adult
FishBase
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Record: largest individual on record

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

Maximum lifespan
15 yearsrecord 30 years · FishBase
AnAge
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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
3.47
FishBase
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Source: FishBase · v25.04, estimate table · CC BY-NC 4.0

Diet
carnivoreaverage
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From trophic level 3.47 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.

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

Volume l
6.6 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 European seabass yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderPerciformes
  4. ›familyMoronidae
  5. ›genusDicentrarchus
  6. ›speciesDicentrarchus labrax
Full lineage
  1. superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
  2. orderAcanthomorphata
  3. familyMoronidae
  4. genusDicentrarchus
All 11 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
  7. classActinopteri
  8. subclassNeopterygii
  9. orderAcanthomorphata
  10. familyMoronidae
  11. genusDicentrarchus
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In other languages
Bar commun (fr), Llobarro (es), Europäischer Wolfsbarsch (de), meribassi (fi), Havabbor (nb), Europese zeebaars (nl) … and 25 more languages
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Bar (Dicentrarchus labrax) (Ifremer 00735 84702) (cropped)Dicentrarchus labrax 177025102
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