Sparodon: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Actinopterygii
- Order
- Acanthuriformes
- Family
- Sparidae
- Genus
- Sparodon
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Sparodon
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Sparodon
Sparodon, commonly known as the white musselcracker, musselcracker seabream, mussel cracker seabream, brusher, or cracker. is a monotypic genus of fish in the family Sparidae. The type and only known species, Sparodon durbanensis, was first described and named by François Louis Nompar de Caumont de Laporte, comte de Castelnau, in 1861.
The fish is edible and is an important food source in southern Africa.
...Sparodon in languages:
- Chinese
- 石齒鯛屬
- Russian
- Серебристые спарусы
Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Acanthopagrus
- Amamiichthys
- Archosargus
- Argyrops
- Argyrozona
- Boops
- Boopsoidea
- Calamus
- Centracanthus
- Cheimerius
- Chrysoblephus
- Chrysophrys
- Crenidens
- Cymatoceps
- Dentex
- Diplodus
- Evynnis
- Gymnocrotaphus
- Lagodon
- Lithognathus
- Oblada
- Pachymetopon
- Pagellus
- Pagrus
- Parargyrops
- Petrus
- Polyamblyodon
- Polysteganus
- Porcostoma
- Pterogymnus
- Rhabdosargus
- Sarpa
- Sparidentex
- Sparodon
- Sparus
- Spicara
- Spondyliosoma
- Stenotomus
- Virididentex