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Spotted Seabass

Dicentrarchus punctatus

Classification

Family
Moronidae

The spotted seabass (Dicentrarchus punctatus) is a species of ray-finned fish belonging to the family Moronidae, the temperate basses. This species is found in the marine and brackish waters of the coastal eastern Atlantic Ocean from the English Channel to the Canary Islands and Senegal, as well as through the Mediterranean Sea. Taxonomy The spotted seabass was first formally described as Sciaena punctata in 1792 by the German physician and naturalist Marcus Elieser Bloch with its type locality given as the Mediterranean Sea.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Spain · 57France · 39Italy · 2