Painted comber

Painted comber ( Serranus scriba )

The painted comber ( Serranus scriba ) is a species of the family Serranidae family ( Serranidae ).

Description

The signature bass is similar in body shape to the much larger groupers. He has a stocky body, a large head and a very large in proportion to body size mouth which is vorstülpbar and whose jaws are set with sharp teeth. The base color of the body is yellow to beige, the color of the rear end is towards intensive. The caudal fin is dark yellow to orange and rounded anal fin and the front part armed with spines dorsal fin are yellow with orange spots and lines. The pelvic fins and the pectoral fins are usually monochromatic light yellow. The head pattern consists of innumerable, squiggly brown lines that are reminiscent of the Arabic alphabet, which also names the origin is explained. On the body, the drawing consists of vertical, dark brown stripes that are broader and darker toward the tail. Characteristic compared to closely related species such as seabass ( Serranus cabrilla ) is a large, bright blue spot on both sides of abdomen, the intense blue sky in older fish.

The average length is 15-25 cm, with lengths up to 36 inches can be achieved with a maximum age of 16 years in rare cases.

Dissemination

The painted comber comes in the Eastern Atlantic from the West African coast to northern Spain before, also in the Canary Islands and the Azores, as it is a relatively frequent bars chart of the Mediterranean and the Black Sea.

Way of life

The fish inhabit coastal habitats are rocky and pebbly coasts at depths from the surface to at most about 30 meters, maximum he lives in depths up to 150 meters. Sandy ground is usually avoided, only by sea and Neptune grass meadows can find the font perch occasionally.

Font perch are loners who are strictly territorial and defend their territories aggressively towards conspecifics. Mostly they are hiding in crevices or under stones and preferably start from there to hunt.

Nutrition

The fish feed exclusively animal, in addition to shrimp, lobster, crabs beach, worms, small squid and sea snails are also fish up to about ten centimeters in length, such as anchovies, sardines, silversides or young sea bream on the menu.

Reproduction

Font perch are true hermaphrodite, the same form sperm and egg. This is also a self-fertilization is possible in the absence of partners. The eggs are firmly attached to the underside of rocks near the shore. The spawning time is in the late spring to early summer.

Font perch and human

The relatively small font perch is rarely used by humans as food. The capture of animals is difficult because the shelters are not to fish under rocks with cross-linked. Occasionally, the animals are caught by anglers, mostly with lures such as bait fish, pieces of fish or squid. After the bite of a document perch it is important to immediately take him away with a strong train of his dugout to risk not a hard and translated into a loss of the fish.

The meat of this Serraniden is light, tasty and relatively grätenarm. The fish is particularly suitable for roasting or grilling a whole.