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Pagrus pagrus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Red porgy
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Greece country information

Common names: Fagri, Phágri Mertzáni, Μερτζάνι
Occurrence: native
Salinity: marine
Abundance: abundant (always seen in some numbers) | Ref: Tsimenides, N., G. Tserpes, A. Machias and A. Kallianiotis, 1991
Importance: commercial | Ref:
Aquaculture: commercial | Ref: FAO, 1997
Regulations: | Ref:
Uses: no uses
Comments: Found in Cretan shelf (Ref. 40188). Recorded from Strymonikos Gulf (Ref. 58475). Also Ref. 3397, 9987. Also Ref. 40188.
National Checklist:
Country Information: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/gr.html
National Fisheries Authority:
Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Papaconstantinou, C., 2014
National Database:

Common names from other countries

Pagre rouge, Pargo, Пагр обыкновенный, ... more

Classification / Names Nombres comunes | Sinónimos | Catalog of Fishes(Género, Especie) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

> Eupercaria/misc (Various families in series Eupercaria) > Sparidae (Porgies)
Etymology: Pagrus: Greek, pagros = a fish, Dentex, sp. (Ref. 45335).
  More on author: Linnaeus.

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

marino bentopelágico; oceanodromo (Ref. 51243); rango de profundidad 0 - 250 m (Ref. 3688), usually 10 - 80 m (Ref. 9626).   Subtropical; 51°N - 43°S, 98°W - 36°E

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