Blotched picarel
Spicara maena
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Compound: blotched + picarel blotched: for the dark blotch on the flank, picarel: a small Mediterranean fish ↳ picarel from French picarel (picarel, a small Mediterranean fish)
Blotched picarel. Small sparid of the Mediterranean, Black Sea and eastern Atlantic from Portugal to the Canaries, reaching about 25 cm. A protogynous hermaphrodite that feeds on zooplankton over sand, mud, rock and Posidonia beds at 30-130 m; minor commercial value.
Same species, different names
Blotched picarelInternational
μαινίςAncient Greece