Fish of the Zeus genus of the Zeidae family of the Zeiformes order of the Paracanthopterygii superorder.
(John dory. Photo by © Raimundo Fernandez. flickr.com/photos/rferdiez)
John Dory (Zeus faber) was first described in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778).
It inhabits the depths of 5-400 meters, usually 50-150 meters. It swims near the bottom. It is a single predator. The maximum recorded length is 90 cm; specimens up to 40 cm long are more common. The maximum weight is 8 kilograms. It feeds on small schooling fish, cephalopods and crustaceans.
(John dory. Photo by © Peter Wirtz. fishbase.org)
It is a permanent inhabitant of the Adriatic Sea.
Names of John Dory (Zeus faber) in other languages are as follows:
Peshku kovaç (Albanian), Kakashal (Hungarian) Zonnevis (Dutch), Χριστόψαρο (Hristopsaro) (Greek), Pez de San Pedro (Spanish), Pesce San Pietro (Italian), Petersfisch (German), Piotrosz japoński (Polish), Peixe-galo-negro (Portuguese), Dulgher (Romanian), Обыкновенный солнечник (Obyknovennyi solnechnik) (Russian), Kovač, Šanpjer (Croatian, Serbian, Slovenian), Dülger balığı (Turkish), Saint Pierre (French), Pilobřich ostnitý (Czech).