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Salema (Sarpa salpa), Catania, Sicilia, Italia, 2025 04 04, DD 90🐟

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SpeciesPerciformesSparidae
Fish

🐟Salema porgy

Sarpa salpa (Linnaeus, 1758)

The salema porgy, also known as the dreamfish, salema, cow bream, karanteen, salpa, saupe, strepie or goldline, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Sparidae, which includes the seabreams and porgies. It is the only species in the monospecific genus Sarpa. It is found in the eastern Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea and southwestern Indian Ocean.

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Also called
Salema, Gold Line, Goldline, Karanteen, Salpa, saupe
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2014.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
not recorded
Body length
0.3 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
not recorded
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Body length
0.3 mrecord 0.51 m · FishBasetypical adult
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Record: largest individual on record

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

Trophic level
2
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Source: FishBase · v25.04, estimate table · CC BY-NC 4.0

Diet
herbivoreaverage
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From trophic level 2 (FishBase): <2.2 herbivore, 2.2–2.8 omnivore, >2.8 carnivore.

Danger to humans
harmless
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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderPerciformes
  4. ›familySparidae
  5. ›genusSarpa
  6. ›speciesSarpa salpa
Full lineage
  1. superclassRay-finned fish · Actinopterygii
  2. orderAcanthomorphata
  3. orderSpariformes
  4. genusSarpa
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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. genusSarpa
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In other languages
Sarpa salpa (es), Sarpa salpa (pt), Goldstrieme (de), σάλπα (el), Saupe (fr), gestreepte bokvis (nl) … and 17 more languages
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Salema (Sarpa salpa), Catania, Sicilia, Italia, 2025 04 04, DD 90Banco de salemas (Sarpa salpa), Madeira, Portugal, 2019 05 30, DD 07
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