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SpeciesPerciformesSparidae
Fish

🐟Gilt-head bream

Sparus aurata Linnaeus, 1758

La dorade royale (Sparus aurata) ou daurade, est une espèce de poisson osseux appartenant à la famille Sparidae (Sparidés) dont la taille atteint régulièrement 50 cm pour 2 kg et peut atteindre jusqu'à 70 cm pour 6 kg. Plusieurs espèces différentes portent le nom vernaculaire de dorade, mais en France, « daurade » écrite avec « au » désigne spécifiquement Sparus aurata, la dorade royale, poisson très apprécié en gastronomie. Il a été montré au début des années 2000, qu'au sein de la population méditerranéenne, il existait des sous-populations génétiquement différenciées, par exemple très différentes entre les deux rives de la Méditerranée occidentale.

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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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In other languages
Sparus aurata (es), Sparus aurata (fr), Dorada (pl), ספרוס זהוב (he), Sparus aurata (it), Dourada (gl) … and 23 more languages
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