Fishes of Black Sea

Fishes of Black Sea. Length: 30 cm and bigger. Weight: 250 g and bigger. Mouth: lower mouth

Black scorpionfish

scorpaena porcus
Black scorpion fish, Black scorpion-fish, European scorpionfish, Rascasse, Sea pig, Sea scorpion, Small-scaled scorpion fish, Small-scaled scorpionfish, Smallscaled scorpion-fish, Smallscaled scorpionfish

Length: up to 31 cm.

Weight: up to 870 g.

Annular bream

diplodus annularis
Annular sea bream, Annular seabream

Length: up to 33 cm.

Weight: up to 330 g.

Atlantic stargazer

uranoscopus scaber
Stargazer

Length: up to 35 cm.

Weight: up to 940 g.

Knout goby

mesogobius batrachocephalus
Toad goby

Length: up to 35 cm.

Weight: up to 600 g.

Painted comber

serranus scriba
Pointed comber

Length: up to 36 cm.

Weight: up to 526 g.

Greater weever

trachinus draco
Greater weaver, Greater weever fish

Length: up to 40 cm.

Weight: up to 1.9 kg.

Striped red mullet

mullus surmuletus
Red mullet, Red stripped mullet, Striped mullet, Surmullet, Woodcock of the sea

Length: up to 40 cm.

Weight: up to 1 kg.

Comber

serranus cabrilla
Channos, Gaper, Garrupa, Learned rockfich

Length: up to 40 cm.

Weight: up to 555 g.

East Atlantic peacock wrasse

crenilabrus tinca
Peacock wrasse, Rainbow wrasse

Length: up to 44 cm.

Weight: up to 924 g.

Blacktail bream

diplodus vulgaris
Common two-banded sea bream, Common two-banded seabream, Twoband bream

Length: up to 45 cm.

Weight: up to 1.3 kg.

Green wrasse

labrus viridis

Length: up to 47 cm.

Weight: up to 1.104 kg.

Shore rockling

gaidropsarus mediterraneus

Length: up to 50 cm.

Weight: up to 450 g.

Red gurnard

aspitrigla cuculus
East Atlantic red gurnard, Soldier

Length: up to 50 cm.

Weight: up to 3.368 kg.

Blacktail

diplodus sargus
White sea bream, White seabream

Length: up to 50 cm.

Weight: up to 1.9 kg.

Sand steenbras

lithognathus mormyrus
Striped sea bream, Striped seabream

Length: up to 55 cm.

Weight: up to 2.167 kg.

Twait shad

alosa fallax
Killarney shad, Shad, Twaite, Twaite shad

Length: up to 56 cm.

Weight: up to 1.5 kg.

Grey gurnard

eutrigla gumardus

Length: up to 60 cm.

Weight: up to 956 g.

Pilot fish

naucrates ductor
Pilot-fish, Pilotfish, Sucker

Length: up to 60 cm.

Weight: up to 3.6 kg.

Puntazzo

diplodus puntazzo
Sharpsnout sea bream, Sharpsnout seabream, Sheephead bream

Length: up to 60 cm.

Weight: up to 1.7 kg.

Common pandora

pagellus erythrinus
Becker, King of the breams, Pandora, Red pandora, Spanish sea bream

Length: up to 60 cm.

Weight: up to 3.2 kg.

Black seabream

spondyliosoma cantharus
Black bream, Black sea bream, Black sea-bream, Old wife

Length: up to 60 cm.

Weight: up to 1.2 kg.

Grey triggerfish

balistes capriscus
Common triggerfish, Cucuyo, Filefish, Gray triggerfish, Leatherjacket, Pig-faced, Trigger fish, Triggerfish, Turbot

Length: up to 61 cm.

Weight: up to 6.2 kg.

John Dory

zeus faber
Atlantic John dory, Doorkeeper's fish, Doree, Gallocristo, Girti, Keparu, Saint Pierre, St. Peter's fish

Length: up to 66 cm.

Weight: up to 8 kg.

Brown meagre

sciaena umbra
Corb

Length: up to 70 cm.

Weight: up to 4.1 kg.

Gilt-head bream

sparus aurata
Gilt head, Gilt head bream, Gilt-head seabream, Gilthead, Gilthead bream, Gilthead seabream, Silver seabream, Snapper

Length: up to 70 cm.

Weight: up to 17.2 kg.

Longnose spurdog

squalus blainville
Bigeye dogfish, Blainville's dogfish, Dogfish, Longnose dogshark

Length: up to 80 cm.

Weight: up to 8.018 kg.

Tub gurnard

chelidonichthys lucemus

Length: up to 82 cm.

Weight: up to 6.6 kg.

Black-bellied angler

lophius budegassa
Blackbellied angler, European anglerfish, White angler fish

Length: up to 1 m.

Weight: up to 10.965 kg.

Common dentex

dentex dentex
Dentex

Length: up to 1 m.

Weight: up to 14.3 kg.

Small-spotted catshark

scyliorhinus canicula
Dogfish, Fay dog, Lesser spotted dogfish, Rough dog, Rough hound, Sandy dogfish, Small spotted dog, Small-spotted cat shark, Small-spotted dogfish, Smallspotted catshark

Length: up to 1 m.

Weight: up to 2.1 kg.

Thornback ray

raja clavata
Maiden ray, Rocker, Roker, Skate, Thornback maid ray, Thornback rough ray, Thornback skate, Thorny

Length: up to 1.25 m.

Weight: up to 18 kg.

Croaker

argyrosomus regius
Meagre, Salmon bass, Shadefish

Length: up to 1.4 m.

Weight: up to 103 kg.

Bearded umbrine

umbrina cirrosa
Corb, Gurbell, Sea crow, Shi drum

Length: up to 1.5 m.

Weight: up to 11.1 kg.

Angler

lophius piscatorius
Angler fish, Anglerfish, Monk, Monkfish

Length: up to 2 m.

Weight: up to 57.7 kg.

Striped bass

morone saxatilis
Linesider, Roccus, Rock, Rockfish, Striped sea bass, Striped sea-bass, Striper bass

Length: up to 2 m.

Weight: up to 57 kg.

Common stingray

dasyatis pastinaca
Blue stingray, Sting ray, Stingray

Length: up to 2 m.

Weight: up to 10.2 kg.

Spiny dogfish

squalus acanthias
Blue dog, Common spiny fish, Darwen salmon, Dog fish, Dogfish, Grayfish, Pacific dogfish, Piked dogfish, Rock salmon, Southern spiny dogfish, Spiky dog, Spiny Dogfish, Spotted spiny dogfish, Spring dogfish, Spur dogfish, Spurdog, Victorian spotted dogfish, White-spotted dogfish, White-spotted spurdog, Whitespotted dogfish

Length: up to 2.08 m.

Weight: up to 9.1 kg.

Bastard sturgeon

acipenser nudiventris
Barbel sturgeon, Bastard Sturgeon, Fringebarbel sturgeon, Ship, Ship Sturgeon, Ship sturgeon, Spiny sturgeon, Thorn Sturgeon, Thorn sturgeon

Length: up to 2.2 m.

Weight: up to 80 kg.

Starry sturgeon

acipenser stellatus
Sevruga, Star sturgeon, Stellate sturgeon, Stellate Sturgeon

Length: up to 2.2 m.

Weight: up to 80 kg.

Persian sturgeon

acipenser persicus

Length: up to 2.5 m.

Weight: up to 30 kg.

Angel

squatina squatina
Angel fiddle fish, Angel puffy fish, Angel ray, Angel shark, Angelfish, Angelshark, Escat jueu, Fiddle fish, Monk, Monkfish

Length: up to 2.5 m.

Weight: up to 80 kg.

Russian sturgeon

acipenser gueldenstaedtii
Azov-Black sea sturgeon, Danube sturgeon, Kura sturgeon, Osetr, Persian sturgeon

Length: up to 3 m.

Weight: up to 115 kg.

Smooth hammerhead

sphyrna zygaena
Common hammerhead, Common hammerhead shark, Common smooth hammerhead shark, Hammerhead, Hammerhead shark, Round headed hammerhead, Round-headed hammer head shark, Round-headed hammerhead, Round-headed hammerhead shark, Shark, Smooth hammer-headed shark, Smooth Hammerhead, Smooth hammerhead shark

Length: up to 4 m.

Weight: up to 400 kg.

Spiny butterfly ray

gymnura altavela
Butterfly ray, Giant butterfly ray

Length: up to 4 m.

Weight: up to 60 kg.

European sea sturgeon

acipenser sturio
Atlantic sturgeon, Baltic sturgeon, Common sturgeon, European sturgeon, Sea sturgeon, Sturgeon

Length: up to 6 m.

Weight: up to 400 kg.

Beluga (sturgeon)

huso huso
European Sturgeon, European sturgeon, Giant sturgeon, Giant Sturgeon, Great Sturgeon, Great sturgeon, Russian sturgeon

Length: up to 6 m.

Weight: up to 1.5 t.

Common thresher

alopias vulpinus
Atlantic thresher, Big-eye thresher, Common thresher shark, Fox shark, Grayfish, Green thresher, Sea fox, Slasher, Swingletail, Swiveltail, Swivetail, Thintail thresher, Thrasher, Thresher, Thresher shark, Thresher Shark, Tresher shark, Whip-tailed shark, Zorro thresher shark

Length: up to 6.09 m.

Weight: up to 510 kg.