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Brama brama (Bonnaterre, 1788)

To FishBase images (<i>Brama brama</i>, Portugal, by Monteiro, P.)
To FishBase images (Brama brama, Portugal, by Monteiro, P.)

126783  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:126783)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Chordata (Phylum)
  4. Vertebrata (Subphylum)
  5. Gnathostomata (Infraphylum)
  6. Osteichthyes (Parvphylum)
  7. Actinopterygii (Gigaclass)
  8. Actinopteri (Superclass)
  9. Teleostei (Class)
  10. Scombriformes (Order)
  11. Bramidae (Family)
  12. Brama (Genus)
  13. Brama brama (Species)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Sparus brama Bonnaterre, 1788) Bonnaterre, J. P. (1788). Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature... Ichthyologie. <em>Panckoucke, Paris.</em> i-lvi + 1-215, Pls. A-B. 1-100., available online at https://books.google.com/books?id=Z67NZ0_oObYC&pg=PR1
page(s): 104 [details] OpenAccess publication
Distribution Grand Bank southward to northern South America  
Distribution Grand Bank southward to northern South America [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Brama brama (Bonnaterre, 1788). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=126783 on 2025-03-27
Date
action
by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
created
van der Land, Jacob
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z
changed
Bailly, Nicolas

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Nomenclature

original description (of Brama raii Bloch & Schneider, 1801) Bloch, M.E.; Schneider, J.G. (1801). M.E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae iconibus cx illustratum. Post obitum auctoris opus inchoatum absolvit, correxit, interpolavit Jo. <em>Gottlob Schneider, Saxo. Berolini. Sumtibus Auctoris Impressum et Bibliopolio Sanderiano Commissum.</em> Pp i-lx + 1-584, Pls. 1-110., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/5750#/summary [details] 

original description (of Sparus raii Bloch, 1791) Bloch, M. E. (1791). Naturgeschichte der ausländischen Fische. <em>Berlin.</em> v. 5. i-viii + 1-152, Pls. 253-288. [details] 

original description (of Brama pinnasquamata Couch, 1849) Couch, J. (1849). Description of Brama pinna-squamata, a supposed unrecognized British fish. <em>The Zoologist: a Popular Miscellany of Natural History.</em> v. 7 (Appendix, art. 3): xxvi-xxviii.
page(s): xxvi, Fig. [details] 

original description (of Brama raji Bloch & Schneider, 1801) Bloch, M.E.; Schneider, J.G. (1801). M.E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae iconibus cx illustratum. Post obitum auctoris opus inchoatum absolvit, correxit, interpolavit Jo. <em>Gottlob Schneider, Saxo. Berolini. Sumtibus Auctoris Impressum et Bibliopolio Sanderiano Commissum.</em> Pp i-lx + 1-584, Pls. 1-110., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/5750#/summary
page(s): 99 [details] 

original description (of Brama marina Fleming, 1828) Fleming, J. (1828). A history of British animals, exhibiting the descriptive characters and systematical arrangement of the genera and species of quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, Mollusca, and Radiata of the United Kingdom; including the indigenous, extirpated, and extinct kinds, together with periodical and occasional visitants. <em>Edinburgh, Bell & Bradfute / London, James Duncan.</em> Pp. i-xxii, 1-565. corrigenda., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/18569
page(s): 210 [details] 

original description (of Sparus brama Bonnaterre, 1788) Bonnaterre, J. P. (1788). Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature... Ichthyologie. <em>Panckoucke, Paris.</em> i-lvi + 1-215, Pls. A-B. 1-100., available online at https://books.google.com/books?id=Z67NZ0_oObYC&pg=PR1
page(s): 104 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Sparus dentatus Berkenhout, 1789) Berkenhout, J. (1789). Synopsis of the natural history of Great-Britain and Ireland. Containing a systematic arrangement and concise description of all the animals, vegetables and fossils which have hitherto been discovered in these kingdoms. <em>2nd ed. Cadell, London.</em> v. 1: i-xiii + 14-15 + 1-334.
page(s): 74 [details] 

original description (of Sparus castaneola Lacepède, 1802) Lacepède, B.G.E. (1802). Histoire naturelle des poissons: IV. <em>chez Plassan: Paris, France.</em> v. 4: i-xliv + 1-728, Pl. 1-16., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6705733
page(s): 33, 111 [details] 

original description (of Lepidotus catalonicus Asso y del Rio, 1801) Asso y del Rio, I. J. de. (1801). Introduccion á la ichthyologia oriental de España. <em>Anales de Ciencias Naturales del Instituto José Acosta, Madrid.</em> 4 (10): 28-52. Pls. 34-35. [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Lepodus saragus Rafinesque, 1810) Rafinesque, C. S. (1810). Caratteri di alcuni nuovi generi e nuove specie di animali e piante della sicilia, con varie osservazioni sopra i medisimi. <em>Per le stampe di Sanfilippo: Palermo, Italy.</em> Part 1 involves fishes, pp. [i-iv] 3-69 [70 blank], Part 2 with slightly different title, pp. ia-iva + 71-105 [106 blank]). Pls. 1-20., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/47825964
page(s): 54 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Brama rayi Bloch & Schneider, 1801) Bloch, M.E.; Schneider, J.G. (1801). M.E. Blochii, Systema Ichthyologiae iconibus cx illustratum. Post obitum auctoris opus inchoatum absolvit, correxit, interpolavit Jo. <em>Gottlob Schneider, Saxo. Berolini. Sumtibus Auctoris Impressum et Bibliopolio Sanderiano Commissum.</em> Pp i-lx + 1-584, Pls. 1-110., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/5750#/summary [details] 

basis of record van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 357-374 (look up in IMIS) [details] 

Ecology

ecology source Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details] OpenAccess publication

Other

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] 

context source (RAS) Australian Antarctic Data Centre. , available online at https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/biodiversity/ [details] 

context source (Bermuda) Smith-Vaniz, W. F.; Collette, B. B.; Luckhurst, B. E (1999). Fishes of Bermuda: History, zoogeography, annotated checklist, and identification keys (American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists - Special Publication No.4) . ASIH, 424 pp. [details] 

additional source Scott, W.B.; Scott, M.G. (1988). Atlantic fishes of Canada. <em>Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.</em> No. 219. 731 pp. [details] 

additional source Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. <em>Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France.</em> 307 pp., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/145561.pdf [details] 

additional source King, C.M.; Roberts, C.D.; Bell, B.D.; Fordyce, R.E.; Nicoll, R.S.; Worthy, T.H.; Paulin, C.D.; Hitchmough, R.A.; Keyes, I.W.; Baker, A.N.; Stewart, A.L.; Hiller, N.; McDowall, R.M.; Holdaway, R.N.; McPhee, R.P.; Schwarzhans, W.W.; Tennyson, A.J.D.; Rust, S.; Macadie, I. (2009). Phylum Chordata: lancelets, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> pp. 431-554. [details] 

additional source Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2025). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2025., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details] 

additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details] 

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Unreviewed
Diet Opportunistic feeder on small fishes, cephalopods, amphipods, and euphausiids [details]

Distribution Grand Bank southward to northern South America [details]

Habitat An oceanic and epipelagic species, also found to 1,000 m depth. [details]

Habitat nektonic [details]

Importance Social- Commercial, fishery [details]
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LanguageName 
Catalan saputacastanyola  [details]
Danish havbrasenalmindelig havbrasen  [details]
Dutch pomfretbraam  [details]
English Ray's breamAtlantic pomfret  [details]
Finnish pomfrettimerilahna  [details]
French grande castagnolecastagnole  [details]
Galician palometacastañeta  [details]
German BraschenmakreleBrachsenmakrele  [details]
Icelandic brámafiskur  [details]
Italian pesce castagnacastagnole  [details]
Modern Greek (1453-) Θαλασσομπράμα  [details]
Norwegian havbrasme  [details]
Norwegian Bokmål havbrasme  [details]
Norwegian Nynorsk havbrasme  [details]
Polish brama  [details]
Portuguese freirachaputa  [details]
Spanish palometajaputacastañeta  [details]
Swedish Rays havbraxhavsbraxen  [details]
Turkish balta baligi  [details]
Welsh merfog môr  [details]
To Barcode of Life (63 barcodes) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Chaetodon umbratus Cabrera, Pérez & Haenseler, 1857)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Lepidotus chilensis (Guichenot, 1848))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Lepodus squamosus (Hutton, 1875))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (113 publications) (from synonym Brama raii Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (12 publications) (from synonym Sparus raii Bloch, 1791)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (13 publications) (from synonym Toxotes squamosus Hutton, 1875)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (17 publications) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Lepidotus catalonicus Asso y del Rio, 1801)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (23 publications) (from synonym Sparus niger Turton, 1804)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (24 publications) (from synonym Brama marina Fleming, 1828)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (25 publications) (from synonym Sparus castaneola Lacepède, 1802)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (29 publications) (from synonym Sparus brama Bonnaterre, 1788)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (31 publications) (from synonym Lepodus saragus Rafinesque, 1810)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (36 publications) (from synonym Brama rayi Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (42 publications) (from synonym Brama raji Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Sparus dentatus Berkenhout, 1789)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications) (from synonym Sparus raji (Bloch & Schneider, 1801))
To Dyntaxa 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Brama brama) 
To FishBase (from synonym Brama marina Fleming, 1828)
To FishBase (from synonym Brama squamosa (Hutton, 1875))
To FishBase (from synonym Chaetodon umbratus Cabrera, Pérez & Haenseler, 1857)
To FishBase (from synonym Brama pinnasquamata Couch, 1849)
To FishBase (from synonym Brama raji Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
To FishBase 
To FishBase (from synonym Toxotes squamosus Hutton, 1875)
To FishBase (from synonym Lepidotus catalonicus Asso y del Rio, 1801)
To FishBase (from synonym Sparus niger Turton, 1804)
To FishBase (from synonym Sparus raji (Bloch & Schneider, 1801))
To FishBase (from synonym Sparus brama Bonnaterre, 1788)
To FishBase (from synonym Sparus dentatus Berkenhout, 1789)
To FishBase (from synonym Brama raii Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
To FishBase (from synonym Sparus castaneola Lacepède, 1802)
To FishBase (from synonym Lepodus squamosus (Hutton, 1875))
To FishBase (from synonym Brama rayi Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
To FishBase (from synonym Lepidotus chilensis (Guichenot, 1848))
To FishBase (from synonym Lepodus saragus Rafinesque, 1810)
To FishBase images (Brama brama, Portugal, by Monteiro, P.) 
To GenBank (83 nucleotides; 67 proteins) 
To GenBank (83 nucleotides; 67 proteins) (from synonym Sparus brama Bonnaterre, 1788)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) 
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern) 
To NMNH Extant Collection (Brama brama RAD114265-001) 
To PESI 
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
To FishBase images (<i>Brama brama</i>, Portugal, by Monteiro, P.)
To FishBase images (Brama brama, Portugal, by Monteiro, P.)
Hosted externally
Unreviewed
Poll (1947, fig. 155)
Poll (1947, fig. 155)
Braam
Braam
Brama brama
Brama brama
Braam - Brama brama
Braam - Brama brama
To NMNH Extant Collection (Brama brama RAD114265-001)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Brama brama RAD114265-001)
Hosted externally

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