Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Serranidae > Serranus > Serranus cabrilla

Serranus cabrilla (Learned rockfich; Garrupa; Gaper; Comber)

Synonyms: Paracentropristis cabrilla; Perca cabrilla; Serranus cabrila; Serranus knysnaensis
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Wikipedia Abstract

Comber (/ˈkɒmbər/) (Serranus cabrilla), is a species of fish in the family Serranidae. It lives in the Mediterranean Sea, the Black Sea and the Atlantic coast from the British Isles to the Cape of Good Hope, including the Azores, Madeira and the Canary Islands. The habitat are rocky or sandy sounding-deeps at depths of 0–200 metres (0–656 ft). Size can vary from 5–25 centimetres (2.0–9.8 in) in normal individual to up to 40 cm (16 in). The comber feeds on other fish, cephalopods and crustaceans.
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Tsitsikamma National Park II 34343 Southern Cape, South Africa  

Prey / Diet

Gobius niger (Black goby)[1]
Sardina pilchardus (European pilchard)[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Consumers

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Feeding habits and trophic levels of Mediterranean fish, Konstantinos I. Stergiou & Vasiliki S. Karpouzi, Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries 11: 217–254, 2002
♦ 2Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0