sparid
/ˈsparɪd
/ /ˈspeɪrɪd /noun Zoology
A fish of the sea bream family (Sparidae), whose members are marine and have deep bodies with long spiny dorsal fins.The diet of the lemon shark, Negaprion brevirostris, collected from the Bahamas, is dominated by inner neritic fish, like sparids, lutjanids and gerreids....
- According to Domain, the sparid community is composed of species with a preference for cold waters.
- We used the two satellite DNA families of the sparid species for phylogenetic inference of the group.
Origin
1960s: from modern Latin Sparidae (plural), via Latin from Greek sparos 'sea bream'.