SEA-BREAMS. 
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THE COMMON SEA-BREAM (sw. blankestenen ob flackpagellen). 
SPARUS CENTRODONTUS. 
Fig. 16. 
Length of the snout less than * 1 11 / 3 of the length of the head , its breadth less than 1 / 3 of the base of the anal fin, 
the length of which is, however, more than {at least equal to) half the distance from the tip of the snout to the 
beginning of the dorsal fin, and also more than l'/ 2 times the length, of the lower jaw. Longitudinal diameter 
of the eye more than 3 / 4 of the least depth of the tail, which is less than 3 / 10 of the length of the head or the 
greatest depth of the body. Occipital branches of the system of the lettered line distinct and including between 
them a crescent-shaped patch of common scales. Colour of the body red with a golden and silver lustre, back 
dark, belly whitish; in adult specimens a black spot on the shoulder at the beginning of the lateral line. 
a 
Fig. 16. Common Sea-Bream ( Spams centrodontus ) caught in a flounder-net oft Yarberg, July, 1886. 1 / 2 natural size. 
a. mandible with teeth. From a larger specimen. 3 / 4 natural size. 
E - br - 6; D - irri2 ; A - rrrr^ ; R 2+12+2 L 2+13 + !; 
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V. x /- ; C. a + 15 + x-, L. I at. 75 c ; L. tr. hi. 
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Syn. Blanke- Steen, Str5m, Sondm. Beskr., part. I, p. 270; Brunn., 
Zool. Fund., pp. 127 et 137. 
Sparus centrodontus , Delaroche, Ann. Mus. d’Hist. Nat., vol. 
XIII, p. 345, tab. 23, fig. 11; Cuv., Val. ( Pagellus ), Hist. 
Nat. Poiss., vol. VI, p. 180; Nilss., Prodr. Ichth., Scand., 
p. 72; Schagerstrom, K. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 1833, p. 138, 
tab. 2 et 3; Krgy., Danm. Fiske , I, p. 206; Nilss., Skand. 
Fn., Fisk., p. 115; Gthr, Cat. Brit., Mus., Fish., I, p. 
476; Steind., Stzber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, LVI, I (1867), p. 
663; Coll., Vid. Selsk. Forh., Christ. 1874; Tillasgsh., p. 
18; CederstrSm, Ofvers. Vet.-Akad. Forh. 1876, N:r 4, p. 
64; Coll., 1. c., 1879, p. 6; Id., N. Mag. Naturv., Christ., 
Bd. 29 (1884), p. 51; Malm, Gbgs, Boh., Fn., p. 385; 
Winth., Zool. Dan., Fiske, p. 14, tab. Ill, fig. 2; Id., 
Naturh. Tidskr. Kbhvn, ser. 3, vol. XII, p. 8; Day, Fish. 
G:t Brit., Irel ., I, p. 36, tab. XIII; Hansson, Ofvers. Vet.- 
Akad. F5rh. 1880, N:r 4, p. 20; Lillj., Sv., Norg. Fn., 
Fisk., I, p. 214. 
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— according to Kroyer. 
i a ° 
1 according to Steindachner. 
11 — 13 & 
c 65 — 70 according to Lilljeborg; 67 — 70( + 5 — 7 on the caudal fin) according to Steindachner. 
