Fish of the Boops genus of the Sparidae (sea breams and porgies) family of the superfamily Percoidea of the Percoidei suborder of the Perciformes order of the Acanthopterygii superorder.
(Bogue. Photo by © Rui Patricio Freitas. fishbase.org)
Bogue (Boops boops) was first described in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778).
It inhabits the depths of up to 350 meters, usually – up to 100 meters. It is a schooling species. The maximum recorded length is 40.2 cm, specimens up to 20 cm long are more common. The maximum weight is 990 grams. It prefers to swim close to the sandy, oozy, rocky and algae-covered bottom. It feeds mainly on crustaceans.
(Bogue. Photo by © Steve Fallaize. glaucus.org.uk)
It is a permanent inhabitant of the Adriatic Sea.
Names of bogue (Boops boops) in other languages as follows:
Vopa (Albanian), Гопа (Gopa) (Bulgarian), Bokvis (Dutch), Γόπα (Gópa) (Greek), Goboos (Hebrew), Boga (Spanish), Boga (Italian), Gelbstriemenbrasse (German), Bops (Polish), Boga (Portuguese), Бопс (Bops), Полосатик (Polosatik) (Russian), Bukva (Serbian, Croatian, Slovenian), Kupes (Turkish), Bogue (French).