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SCIENTIFIC NAME
COMMON NAME
THUMBNAILS
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Osteichthyes
Order Perciformes
Family Serranidae
Genus Dicentrarchus
Species labrax
Classification Linnaeus, 1758
Common name bass
Size up to 1 meter
Male weight up to 10 kilograms
Female weight up to 10 kilograms

Geographic Range elongate body; big mouth provided with several rows of teeth, and protruding jaw; opercula with two thorns; the lower edge of the preoperculum has a few strong denticles; double dorsal fin with neatly separate sections; cycloid scales; it looks silvery with a greenish-grey back; operculum with dark spot.
Behaviour it tolerates also strong variations in salinity and temperature.
Habitat it lives on several kinds of bottoms and it often enters lagoon areas.
Food habits invertebrates and other fishes.
Reproduction it reproduces in the sea from January to March; eggs are 1,1-1,2 millimeters long. When the eggs open the larvae are 3-4 millimeters long. The young move in groups between March and May towards lagoon areas and they sometimes reach fresh water areas; they remain there and grow up until they reach sexual maturity that is between the second and third year of life.
Status in the lagoon in the lagoon areas there are only few adult individuals and a lot of juveniles which are the favourite prey of fingerlins fishers ("pescenovellanti"). The bass is bred in the fish farms both in intensive and extensive way.

Sources  
References CNR Istituto per lo Studio degli Ecosistemi - Sezione di Idrobiologia ed Ecologia delle Acque Interne - Verbania Pallanza
La fauna ittica dell provincia di Venezia - E. Marconato, G. Maio, S. Salviati - Assessorato alla Caccia, Pesca e Polizia Provinciale della Provincia di Venezia
Web References http://www.iii.to.cnr.it/
Source of the photo http://www.entetutelapesca.it/

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