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

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SpeciesPerciformesMoronidae
Fish

🐟European seabass

Dicentrarchus labrax (Linnaeus, 1758)

ニシウミスズキ（学名: Dicentrarchus labrax）は、モロネ科に分類される魚の一種。ヨーロピアンシーバス（英語: European seabass）、ヨーロッパシーバスとも。大西洋北東沿岸と地中海に生息する大型肉食魚で、食用や釣りの対象魚とされる。「シーデイス」(Sea dace) とも呼ばれている。ヨーロッパスズキの和名もある。ヨーロピアン・シーバスは北米ではイタリア語の名前の一つブランジーノbranzinoで広く知られている。

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Measurements
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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
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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.

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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
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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. familyMoronidae
  11. genusDicentrarchus
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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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