Pomfret

Ray's bream ( Brama brama )

The sea bream ( Bramidae ), also bream, Pomfret or gold heads called, are a family of the order Scombriformes and live in temperate and tropical zones of the Atlantic and Indo-Pacific the.

Features

The laterally flattened, mostly high-backed animals have only a long, in some species very high or sail-shaped dorsal fin. After the Fin has generally the same shape as the dorsal fin and the animals are a symmetrical appearance. The caudal fin is forked in juvenile fish around, in adult animals. Sea bream live in small groups but are nowhere common. The smallest species of Brama dussumieri is only 20 inches long. The largest species Taractichthys longipinnis to be 85 centimeters to one meter long.

System

There are twenty species in eight genera and two subfamilies:

  • Subfamily Braminae genus Brama Brama australis ( Valenciennes, 1837).
  • Ray's bream ( Brama brama ) Bannaterre, 1788.
  • Brama Caribbea Mead, 1972.
  • Brama dussumieri Cuvier, 1831st
  • Brama japonica Hilgendorf, 1878.
  • Brama myersi Mead, 1972.
  • Brama orcini Cuvier, 1831st
  • Brama pauciradiata Moteki, Fujita & Last, 1995.
  • Eumegistus brevorti ( Poey, 1860).
  • Eumegistus illustris Jordan & Jordan, 1922.
  • Taractes rubescens ( Jordan & Evermann, 1887).
  • Taractichthys steindachneri ( Döderlein, 1883).
  • Xenobrama microlepis Yatsu & Nakamura, 1989.
  • Genus Pteraclis Pteraclis aesticola ( Jordan & Snyder, 1901).
  • Pteraclis carolinus Valenciennes, 1833.
  • Pteraclis velifera Australiae Whitley, 1935.
  • Pterycombus brama Fries, 1837.
  • Pterycombus petersii ( Hilgendorf, 1878).
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