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Brama brama (Bonnaterre, 1788) 
AphiaID: 126783

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Bramidae (Family) > Brama (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Brama Bloch & Schneider, 1801
Synonymised
taxa
  Brama chilensis Guichenot, 1848 (synonym)
Brama marina Fleming, 1828
Brama pinnasquamata Couch, 1849
Brama raii (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) (misspelling)
Brama raji Bloch & Schneider, 1801
Brama rayi Bloch & Schneider, 1801 (misspelling)
Brama squamosa (Hutton, 1875)
Chaetodon umbratus Cabrera, Pérez & Haenseler, 1857
Lepidotus catalonicus Asso, 1801
Lepidotus chilensis (Guichenot, 1848)
Lepodus saragus Rafinesque, 1810
Lepodus squamosus (Hutton, 1875)
Sparus brama Bonnaterre, 1788
Sparus castaneola Lacepède, 1802
Sparus dentatus Berkenhout, 1789
Sparus niger Turton, 1804
Sparus raji (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
Toxotes squamosus Hutton, 1875
Sources  original description: Bonnaterre, J.P. (1788). Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature... Ichthyologie. Paris. i-lvi + 1-215, Pls. A-B + 1-100.
page(s): 104 [details]


basis of record: van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 357-374 (look up in IMIS[details]

basis of record: Anon. (2000). FishBase 2000 [CD-ROM]. ICLARM: Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines. 4 cd-roms pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: FishBase, version december 2007, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details]

additional source: FishBase, version may 2009 [details]

additional source: Roberts, C.; Stewart, A.; Francis, M. (2009). Marine fishes (Chordata). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details]

additional source: FishBase, version october 2012 [details]

additional source: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [details]

additional source: Scott, W.B. and M.G. Scott. 1988. Atlantic fishes of Canada. Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences No. 219. 731 p. [details]

additional source: Fishbase, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details]

additional source: Eschmeyer, W.: Catalog of fishes; California Academy of Sciences, department Ichtyology., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]

from synonym: Bloch, M.E.; Schneider, J.G. (1801). M.E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae iconibus cx illustratum. Post obitum auctoris opus inchoatum absolvit, correxit, interpolavit Jo. Gottlob Schneider, Saxo. Berolini. Sumtibus Austoris Impressum et Bibliopolio Sanderiano Commissum. Pp i-lx + 1-584, Pls. 1-110. [details] [view taxon]

context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Catalan castanyola  [details]
Catalan saputa  [details]
Danish almindelig havbrasen  [details]
Danish havbrasen  [details]
Dutch braam  [details]
Dutch pomfret  [details]
English Atlantic pomfret  [details]
English Ray's bream  [details]
Finnish merilahna  [details]
Finnish pomfretti  [details]
French castagnole  [details]
French grande castagnole  [details]
Galician castañeta  [details]
Galician palometa  [details]
German Brachsenmakrele  [details]
German Braschenmakrele  [details]
Icelandic brámafiskur  [details]
Italian castagnole  [details]
Italian pesce castagna  [details]
Modern Greek (1453-) Θαλασσομπράμα  [details]
Norwegian havbrasme  [details]
Norwegian Bokmål havbrasme  [details]
Norwegian Nynorsk havbrasme  [details]
Polish brama  [details]
Portuguese chaputa  [details]
Portuguese freira  [details]
Spanish castañeta  [details]
Spanish japuta  [details]
Spanish palometa  [details]
Swedish havsbraxen  [details]
Swedish Rays havbrax  [details]
Turkish balta baligi  [details]
Welsh merfog môr  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Baltic sea [details]
Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Israeli part of the Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin [details]
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Schelde estuary [details]
South Africa (country) [details]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Westerschelde [details]
Wimereux (not certain[details]
Host of  Colobomatus haeckeli (Richiardi, 1877) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Hatschekia acuta Barnard, 1948 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Hatschekia conifera Yamaguti, 1939 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Bomolochus bramus Ho & Lin, 2009 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links To Barcode of Life (35 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (12 publications)
To Dyntaxa
To Encyclopedia of Life
To FishBase
To GenBank (46 nucleotides; 32 proteins)
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To ITIS
Notes  Diet: Opportunistic feeder on small fishes, cephalopods, amphipods, and euphausiids [details]

Distribution: Grand Bank southward to northern South America [details]

Habitat: nektonic [details]

Habitat: An oceanic and epipelagic species, also found to 1,000 m depth. [details]

Importance: Social- Commercial, fishery [details]
Images 
Poll (1947, fig. 155)
Poll (1947, fig. 155)
added on 2008-08-13 - author: H. Dupond in Poll (1947) (naar Cuvier & Valenciennes)
scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten
qualitystatus: not checked

Braam
Braam
added on 2008-12-15 - author: Billiau, René
qualitystatus: not checked

Brama brama
Brama brama
added on 2011-12-01 - author: De Blauwe, Hans
qualitystatus: not checked

Braam - Brama brama
Braam - Brama brama
added on 2012-01-05 - author: Dirk Vanreusel ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:126783
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z  changed  Bailly, Nicolas
  
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  Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Brama brama (Bonnaterre, 1788). In: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2013) FishBase. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=126783 on 2013-05-24
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