162 Species in Family Sparidae
Nominal species list for Sparidae
Scientific Name Author English Name
Acanthopagrus akazakii Iwatsuki, Kimura & Yoshino, 2006
Acanthopagrus arabicus Iwatsuki, 2013 Arabian yellowfin seabream
Acanthopagrus australis (Günther, 1859) Yellowfin bream
Acanthopagrus berda (Fabricius, 1775) Goldsilk seabream
Acanthopagrus bifasciatus (Forsskål, 1775) Twobar seabream
Acanthopagrus butcheri (Munro, 1949) Black bream
Acanthopagrus catenula (Lacepède, 1801) Bridled seabream
Acanthopagrus chinshira Kume & Yoshino, 2008 Okinawan yellow-fin seabream
Acanthopagrus datnia (Hamilton, 1822) Bengal yellowfin seabream
Acanthopagrus latus (Houttuyn, 1782) Yellowfin seabream
Acanthopagrus morrisonae Iwatsuki, 2013 Western yellowfin seabream
Acanthopagrus omanensis Iwatsuki & Heemstra, 2010 Black Margined Seabream
Acanthopagrus pacificus Iwatsuki, Kume & Yoshino, 2010 Pacific seabream
Acanthopagrus palmaris (Whitley, 1935) Northwest black bream
Acanthopagrus randalli Iwatsuki & Carpenter, 2009 Middle East Black Seabream
Acanthopagrus schlegelii (Bleeker, 1854) Blackhead seabream
Acanthopagrus sheim Iwatsuki, 2013 Spotted yellowfin seabream
Acanthopagrus sivicolus Akazaki, 1962 Okinawa seabream
Acanthopagrus taiwanensis Iwatsuki & Carpenter, 2006 Taiwan picnic seabream
Acanthopagrus vagus (Peters, 1852) Wandering seabream
Amamiichthys matsubarai (Akazaki, 1962) Japanese blue-spotted seabream
Archosargus pourtalesii (Steindachner, 1881) Blackspot porgy
Archosargus probatocephalus (Walbaum, 1792) Sheepshead
Archosargus rhomboidalis (Linnaeus, 1758) Western Atlantic seabream
Argyrops bleekeri Oshima, 1927 Taiwan tai
Argyrops caeruleops Iwatsuki & Heemstra, 2018 Bluesnout soldierbream
Argyrops filamentosus (Valenciennes, 1830) Soldierbream
Argyrops flavops Iwatsuki & Heemstra, 2018 Yellow-snout soldierbream
Argyrops megalommatus (Klunzinger, 1870) Red Sea soldierbream
Argyrops notialis Iwatsuki & Heemstra, 2018 Australian soldierbream
Argyrops spinifer (Forsskål, 1775) King soldierbream
Argyrozona argyrozona (Valenciennes, 1830) Carpenter seabream
Boops boops (Linnaeus, 1758) Bogue
Boops lineatus (Boulenger, 1892) Striped boga
Boopsoidea inornata Castelnau, 1861 Fransmadam
Calamus arctifrons Goode & Bean, 1882 Grass porgy
Calamus bajonado (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) Jolthead porgy
Calamus brachysomus (Lockington, 1880) Pacific porgy
Calamus calamus (Valenciennes, 1830) Saucereye porgy
Calamus campechanus Randall & Caldwell, 1966 Campeche porgy
Calamus cervigoni Randall & Caldwell, 1966 Spotfin porgy
Calamus leucosteus Jordan & Gilbert, 1885 Whitebone porgy
Calamus mu Randall & Caldwell, 1966 Flathead porgy
Calamus nodosus Randall & Caldwell, 1966 Knobbed porgy
Calamus penna (Valenciennes, 1830) Sheepshead porgy
Calamus pennatula Guichenot, 1868 Pluma porgy
Calamus proridens Jordan & Gilbert, 1884 Littlehead porgy
Calamus taurinus (Jenyns, 1840) Galapagos porgy
Centracanthus cirrus Rafinesque, 1810 Curled picarel
Cheimerius nufar (Valenciennes, 1830) Santer seabream
Chrysoblephus anglicus (Gilchrist & Thompson, 1908) Englishman seabream
Chrysoblephus cristiceps (Valenciennes, 1830) Daggerhead seabream
Chrysoblephus gibbiceps (Valenciennes, 1830) Red stumpnose seabream
Chrysoblephus laticeps (Valenciennes, 1830) Roman seabream
Chrysoblephus lophus (Fowler, 1925) False red stumpnose
Chrysoblephus puniceus (Gilchrist & Thompson, 1908) Slinger seabream
Crenidens crenidens (Forsskål, 1775) Karanteen seabream
Crenidens indicus Day, 1873
Crenidens macracanthus Günther, 1874 Günther's karanteen
Cymatoceps nasutus (Castelnau, 1861) Black musselcracker
Dentex abei Iwatsuki, Akazaki & Taniguchi, 2007 Yellowfin sea bream
Dentex angolensis Poll & Maul, 1953 Angolan dentex
Dentex barnardi Cadenat, 1970 Barnard's dentex
Dentex canariensis Steindachner, 1881 Canary dentex
Dentex carpenteri Iwatsuki, Newman & Russell, 2015 Yellow snout seabream
Dentex congoensis Poll, 1954 Congo dentex
Dentex dentex (Linnaeus, 1758) Common dentex
Dentex fourmanoiri Akazaki & Séret, 1999
Dentex gibbosus (Rafinesque, 1810) Pink dentex
Dentex hypselosomus Bleeker, 1854 Yellowback sea-bream
Dentex macrophthalmus (Bloch, 1791) Large-eye dentex
Dentex maroccanus Valenciennes, 1830 Morocco dentex
Dentex spariformis Ogilby, 1910 Saffronfin sea bream
Diplodus annularis (Linnaeus, 1758) Annular seabream
Diplodus argenteus (Valenciennes, 1830) South American silver porgy
Diplodus ascensionis (Valenciennes, 1830)
Diplodus bellottii (Steindachner, 1882) Senegal seabream
Diplodus bermudensis Caldwell, 1965 Bermuda porgy
Diplodus cadenati de la Paz, Bauchot & Daget, 1974 Moroccan white seabream
Diplodus capensis (Smith, 1844) Cape white seabream
Diplodus caudimacula (Poey, 1860) Silver porgy
Diplodus cervinus (Lowe, 1838) Zebra seabream
Diplodus fasciatus (Valenciennes, 1830) Banded seabream
Diplodus helenae (Sauvage, 1879) St. Helena white seabream
Diplodus holbrookii (Bean, 1878) Spottail seabream
Diplodus hottentotus (Smith, 1844) Zebra
Diplodus kotschyi (Steindachner, 1876) One spot seabream
Diplodus levantinus Fricke, Golani & Appelbaum-Golani, 2016
Diplodus lineatus (Valenciennes, 1830)
Diplodus noct (Valenciennes, 1830) Red Sea seabream
Diplodus omanensis Bauchot & Bianchi, 1984 Oman porgy
Diplodus prayensis Cadenat, 1964 Two-banded seabream
Diplodus puntazzo (Walbaum, 1792) Sharpsnout seabream
Diplodus sargus (Linnaeus, 1758) White seabream
Diplodus striatus (Bliss, 1883)
Diplodus vulgaris (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1817) Common two-banded seabream
Evynnis cardinalis (Lacepède, 1802) Threadfin porgy
Evynnis ehrenbergii (Valenciennes, 1830)
Evynnis mononematos Guan, Tang & Wu, 2012
Evynnis tumifrons (Temminck & Schlegel, 1843) Yellowback seabream
Gymnocrotaphus curvidens Günther, 1859 Janbruin
Lagodon rhomboides (Linnaeus, 1766) Pinfish
Lithognathus aureti Smith, 1962 West coast seabream
Lithognathus lithognathus (Cuvier, 1829) White steenbras
Lithognathus mormyrus (Linnaeus, 1758) Sand steenbras
Lithognathus olivieri Penrith & Penrith, 1969 Steenbras
Oblada melanurus (Linnaeus, 1758) Saddled seabream
Pagellus erythrinus (Linnaeus, 1758) Common pandora
Pagellus natalensis Steindachner, 1903 Natal pandora
Pagrus africanus Akazaki, 1962 Southern common seabream
Pagrus auratus (Forster, 1801) Silver seabream
Pagrus auriga Valenciennes, 1843 Redbanded seabream
Pagrus caeruleostictus (Valenciennes, 1830) Bluespotted seabream
Pagrus major (Temminck & Schlegel, 1843) Red seabream
Pachymetopon aeneum (Gilchrist & Thompson, 1908) Blue hottentot
Pachymetopon blochii (Valenciennes, 1830) Hottentot seabream
Pachymetopon grande Günther, 1859 Bronze seabream
Pagellus acarne (Risso, 1827) Axillary seabream
Pagellus affinis Boulenger, 1888 Arabian pandora
Pagellus bellottii Steindachner, 1882 Red pandora
Pagellus bogaraveo (Brünnich, 1768) Blackspot seabream
Pagrus pagrus (Linnaeus, 1758) Red porgy
Parargyrops edita Tanaka, 1916 Crimson sea bream
Petrus rupestris (Valenciennes, 1830) Red steenbras
Polyamblyodon germanum (Barnard, 1934) German seabream
Polyamblyodon gibbosum (Pellegrin, 1914) Knife-back seabream
Polysteganus baissaci Smith, 1978 Frenchman seabream
Polysteganus cerasinus Iwatsuki & Heemstra, 2015 Cherry seabream
Polysteganus coeruleopunctatus (Klunzinger, 1870) Blueskin seabream
Polysteganus flavodorsalis Iwatsuki & Heemstra, 2015
Polysteganus lineopunctatus (Boulenger, 1903)
Polysteganus mascarenensis Iwatsuki & Heemstra, 2011 Mascarene Red Seabream
Polysteganus praeorbitalis (Günther, 1859) Scotsman seabream
Polysteganus undulosus (Regan, 1908) Seventyfour seabream
Porcostoma dentata (Gilchrist & Thompson, 1908) Dane seabream
Pterogymnus laniarius (Valenciennes, 1830) Panga seabream
Rhabdosargus globiceps (Valenciennes, 1830) White stumpnose
Rhabdosargus haffara (Fabricius, 1775) Haffara seabream
Rhabdosargus holubi (Steindachner, 1881) Cape stumpnose
Rhabdosargus niger Tanaka & Iwatsuki, 2013
Rhabdosargus sarba (Forsskål, 1775) Goldlined seabream
Rhabdosargus thorpei Smith, 1979 Bigeye stumpnose
Sarpa salpa (Linnaeus, 1758) Salema
Sparidentex belayewi (Hora & Misra, 1943)
Sparidentex hasta (Valenciennes, 1830) Sobaity seabream
Sparidentex jamalensis Amir, Siddiqui & Masroor, 2014 Fanged seabream
Sparodon durbanensis (Castelnau, 1861) Musselcracker seabream
Sparus aurata Linnaeus, 1758 Gilthead seabream
Spicara altum (Osório, 1917) Bigeye picarel
Spicara australe (Regan, 1921)
Spicara axillare (Boulenger, 1900)
Spicara flexuosum Rafinesque, 1810
Spicara maena (Linnaeus, 1758) Blotched picarel
Spicara martinicum (Valenciennes, 1830)
Spicara melanurus (Valenciennes, 1830) Blackspot picarel
Spicara nigricauda (Norman, 1931) Blacktail picarel
Spicara smaris (Linnaeus, 1758) Picarel
Spondyliosoma cantharus (Linnaeus, 1758) Black seabream
Spondyliosoma emarginatum (Valenciennes, 1830) Steentjie seabream
Stenotomus caprinus Jordan & Gilbert, 1882 Longspine porgy
Stenotomus chrysops (Linnaeus, 1766) Scup
Virididentex acromegalus (Osório, 1911) Bulldog dentex
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