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Dicentrarchus punctatus (Bloch, 1792)

Spotted seabass
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Mauritania country information

Common names: Ablagh, Bar tacheté, Baila
Occurrence: native
Salinity: brackish
Abundance: abundant (always seen in some numbers) | Ref: Maigret, J. and B. Ly, 1986
Importance: highly commercial | Ref: Maigret, J. and B. Ly, 1986
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Uses: no uses
Comments: Abundant in Levrier Bay and Banc d'Arguin where they occur in schools of several dozens around Cape Blanc, often in associated with Mugil monodi and in the access channel of Point-Central (Ref. 5377). Also Ref. 4517.
National Checklist:
Country Information: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/mr.html
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Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Maigret, J. and B. Ly, 1986
National Database:

Common names from other countries

Bar tacheté, Baila, Black-spotted bass, ... more

Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | Catalog of Fishes(genus, species) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

Teleostei (teleosts) > Eupercaria/misc (Various families in series Eupercaria) > Moronidae (Temperate basses)
Etymology: Dicentrarchus: Greek, di = two + Greek, kentron = sting + Greek, archos = anus (Ref. 45335).
  More on author: Bloch.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Marine; brackish; pelagic-neritic; depth range 30 - ? m (Ref. 5990).   Subtropical; 51°N - 10°N

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