Pagrus
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Pagrus is a genus of fish
in the family Sparidae
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It contains the following species:
Fish
Fish are a paraphyletic group of organisms that consist of all gill-bearing aquatic vertebrate animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish, as well as various extinct related groups...
in the family Sparidae
Sparidae
The Sparidae is a family of fish, included in the order Perciformes. The fish of the family are commonly called sea breams and porgies . The sheepshead, scup, and red sea bream are species in this family. They are found in shallow temperate and tropical waters and are bottom-dwelling carnivores....
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It contains the following species:
- Pagrus africanus, Southern common seabream (Akazaki, 1962)
- Pagrus auratus, Australasian snapper (Forster, 1801)
- Pagrus auriga, Redbanded seabream (Valenciennes, 1843)
- Pagrus caeruleostictus, Bluespotted seabream (Valenciennes, 1830)
- Pagrus major, Red seabream (Temminck & Schlegel, 1843)
- Pagrus pagrus, Common seabream, or Red porgy (Linnaeus, 1758)