Gilt-head bream in shallow seabed

Gilt-head bream (Sparus aurata Linnaeus, 1758) is a bony sea and brackish water fish belonging to the Sparidae family. The name derives from the characteristic gold stripe that the fish shows between its eyes. Gilt-head bream is present throughout the Mediterranean basin and in the eastern Atlantic ...

Black Seabream Spondyliosoma cantharus

Black Seabream (Spondyliosoma cantharus) is a protogynous species of Sparidae fishes, recognisable by their oval, compressed body and jaws, which contain 4–6 rows of slender teeth that are larger at the front. They are silvery in colour with blue and pink tinges and broken longitudinal gold lines. ...

Sargo in lair

Sargo, Diplodus sargus, or white Seabream is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Sparidae, which includes the seabreams and porgies. This fish is found in the eastern Atlantic Ocean and in the Mediterranean Sea. It is a target species for commercial fisheries and is grown in aquaculture. Diplodus sargus has a deep ...

Night Encounters - Gilt-head bream

At night, most fish slow down their activity, some species sleep, others enter a sort of stasis, others reduce their metabolism to a minimum while remaining alert and vigilant to dangers. Night Encounters Gilt-head bream Incontri notturni Orata Sparus aurata intotheblue.it ...

Gilt-head bream

Gilt-head bream or sea bream is a fish that usually lives in open water, in this video we see a specimen in a hole, probably looking for molluscs and crustaceans on which it feeds.  Often very wary of the diver from whom they keep their distance, in summer it is easy to find specimens, even large ones, among the swimmers ...

Black seabream

Black seabream, Spondyliosoma cantharus, also called Cantaro in Italy, is a fish belonging to the Sparidae family, like the more common bream, and sea bream. We usually encounter this fish on the shallows in the open sea and at depths of 10 to 100 meters. ...

Brown meagre's hole II

We went back to dive in one of the holes where we are sure to meet Brown meagre, Sciaena umbra. We often dive into the same holes not only because we are sure of filming particular species of fish, but also in some way to try to monitor the health of our sea and the biodiversity that we increasingly hope to find ...

Salema - Salpa sarpa

Salema - Salpa sarpa - is one of the most common and easiest to meet Sparidae species in Mediterranean Sea. It is a gregarious fish that lives in held of even numerous individuals. In this video we see it in various conditions and habitats that it shares together with other spawners such as ...

Annular sea bream - Diplodus annularis

With Annular sea bream, Diplodus annularis, we completed the species of Seabreams present in the Mediterranean sea filmed on this site. Sarago sparaglione Diplodus annularis Annular sea bream intotheblue.it ...

Zebra sea bream - Diplodus cervinus

Finding Diplodus cervinus, Zebra sea bream, in the lower Ligurian Sea (or upper Tyrrhenian Sea) is a rather rare event and I would say very unusual, almost exceptional. ...

Black seabream - Spondyliosoma cantharus

In this video collage we can see some encounters with the Black Seabream, Spondyliosoma cantharus, one of the most common Sparidae in the Mediterranean Sea. ...

The hole of Seabream

Seabream, Diplodus Sargus, is one of the most common fish of our seas and of the Mediterranean, it can be found in any type of seabed and habitat. It is a strongly territorial and social species, in fact it lives in groups of different individuals and different sizes ...

Oblada melanura - Saddled seabream

Saddled seabream (Oblada melanura Linnaeus, 1758) is a saltwater fish belonging to the Sparidae family. It is the only species of the genus Oblada. Oblada melanura Occhiata Saddled seabream sparidae intotheblue.it ...

Gilt-head bream Sparus aurata

Gilt-head bream or  Sea bream   is one of the most common and well-known fish in the Mediterranean Sea, we can find it in all Italian rocky or sandy coasts, its habitat is very vast since it often goes also into lagoons, river mouths and brackish waters. In summer it is very easy ...

Puntazzo sea-bream - Diplodus puntazzo

In questo collage di video fatti in due occasioni diverse possiamo vedere il Sarago Pizzuto, Diplodus puntazzo, un pesce appartenente al genere dei Saraghi (Diplodus) della famiglia degli Sparidi (Sparidae). ...

Black seabream - Spondyliosoma cantharus

In this collage of two videos we met the Black seabream Spondyliosoma cantharus. ...

Sea Bream

This Sparus aurata, Sea Bream was filmed by snorkeling in the summer among bathers. In fact, in summer Sea Bream is less suspicious ...

Mormora – Snorkeling in Sardegna

Facendo snorkeling nelle bellissime acque limpide e cristalline della Sardegna, è facilissimo incontrare la Mormora. ...

Greater bream - Diplodus sargus sargus

Greater bream, Diplodus sargus or Diplodus sargus sargus (Linnaeus, 1758) is a sea fish belonging to the Sparidae family. ...

Sand Steenbras

Sand Steenbras, (Lithognathus Mormoryus) belongs to Sparidae family. is a common fish all over the Mediterranean Sea and in the warm waters of the eastern Atlantic, it prefers coastal areas even reaching a few meters from the water's edge.

Two-banded sea bream - Diplodus vulgaris

It is common throughout the Mediterranean Sea and the eastern Atlantic Ocean to Senegal. It prefers the shallows characterized by rocky areas where it easily finds shelter inside the burrows. It is a fish that loves social life and in fact we find it in herds both among its own similar and with other fish of different species.

Gilt-head bream - Sparus aurata

After a storm it is much easier to meet some species of fish that in normal weather conditions would be more shy and suspicious. Even the Gilt-Head Bream (Sparus aurata) in these weather conditions is often in search of food and allows the diver to approach it much more easily.

White Seabream in their den

It is common throughout the Mediterranean Sea and the eastern Atlantic Ocean from bay of Biscay to Angola. It prefers the shallows characterized by rocky areas where it easily finds shelter inside the burrows.

Two-banded sea Bream

Two-banded sea Bream, Diplodus vulgaris, belongs to the class Osteichthyes, subclass Actinopterygii, order Peciformes, suborder Pecoidei, family Sparidae. Oval-shaped, like all the sparidae, it generally has a size around  20-25 cm in adulthood.

Saddled seabream - Oblada melanura

Saddled Seabream (Oblada melanura) is a salted water fish belonging to the Sparidae family. ...

Snorkeling - Sparidae

We have already talked about the Sparids, especially Sargus (Diplodus Sargus) and Sarpa salpa, in this movie you can see how they share the same environment ...

Sparidi - Sarago - Diplodus sargus

Sargo or White seabream (Diplodus sargus Linnaeus, 1758) is a sea fish that belongs to the Sparidae family....