Name: Common two-banded seabream
Scientific Name: Diplodus vulgaris (E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1817)
Family: Sparidae
Group: Bony fish
Class: Fish
Size: 26-50 cm.
This is one of the most common species on the rocky coasts of the Iberian Peninsula. Although they occur at depths of up to 90 m, the adults are more common next to rocks, up to 30 m deep, where they feed on urchins, starfish and algae. The juveniles shelter from predators in seagrass meadows. It is an hermaphrodite species, in which the males can change into females. As the common two-banded seabream has two breeding seasons a year, it is thought that it reproduces by size: at first, the smallest individuals, and only later, the largest (longer than 25 cm).
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North Atlantic
