Fish of the Dentex genus of the Sparidae (sea breams or porgies) family of the superfamily Percoidea of the Percoidei suborder of the Perciformes order of the Acanthopterygii superorder.
(Common dentex. Photo by © Jiří Novák. biolib.cz)
Common dentex (Dentex dentex) was first described in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778).
It inhabits the depths of up to 200 meters, usually – 15-50 meters. It prefers to swim close to the rocky and pebble bottom. The maximum recorded length is 100 cm, specimens up to 50 cm long are more common. The maximum weight is 14.3 kilograms. It feeds mainly on fish, gastropods and cephalopods. Large specimens are solitary predators.
(Common dentex. Photo by © Raimundo Fernandez. flickr.com/photos/rferdiez)
It is a permanent inhabitant of the Adriatic Sea.
Names of common dentex (Dentex dentex) in other languages as follows:
Dentali (Albanian), Зубан (Zuban) (Bulgarian), Tandbrasem (Dutch), Συναγρίδα (Synagrida) (Greek), Shenun (Hebrew), Dentón (Spanish), Dentice (Italian), Zahnbrasse (German), Kielec własciwy (Polish), Dentao (Portuguese), Dințat (Romanian), Обыкновенный зубан (Obyknovennyj zuban) (Russian), Zubatac (Serbian, Croatian), Zobatec (Slovenian), Sinarit (Turkish), Denté commun (French).