Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Vertebrata > Superclass Gnathostomata > Superclass Pisces > Class Actinopterygii > Order Perciformes > Family Sparidae > Genus Sparus

Sparus aurata Linnaeus, 1758

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Sparus*	Linnaeus, 1758	accepted genus name
*Aurata*	Oken (ex Cuvier), 1817	synonym

Species group names

*Sparus auratus*	Linnaeus, 1758	orthographic variant
*Aurata aurata*	(Linnaeus, 1758)	synonym
*Pagrus auratus*	(Linnaeus, 1758)	synonym
*Sparus auratus*	Linnaeus, 1758	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Albanian: kocja; spari kokëpraruar; ullorja sources: Dhora, DH. 2008. Fjalor i emrave të kafshëve të Shqipërisë (Emri shkencor – Shqip – Anglisht) / Dictionary of animal names of Albania (Scientific names – Albanian – English). Camaj – Pipa. Shkodër, Albania. pp. 288.

Catalan: daurada; moixarra; orada sources: TermCat, The Center for Terminology.;Generalitat de Catalunya, Departament d'Agricultura, Ramaderia, Pesca, Alimentació i Medi Natural.

Corsican: dorata; palmata

Dutch: goudbrasem sources: Belgisch staatsblad 07-08-1996: Koninklijk besluit houdende reglementering van de benamingen van visserijprodukten en verwerkte visserijprodukten

English: gilthead; gilt-head bream; gilthead seabream sources: Wheeler, A. (1992). A list of the common and scientific names of fishes of the British Isles. J. Fish Biol. 41(Suppl. A): 1-37;Davidson, A. (2001). North Atlantic fish cookbook [Noord-Atlantisch viskookboek]. Scepter: Bussum, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-72653-14-9. 556 pp.;FAO. FAO Species Identification and Data Programme (SIDP). Aquatic Species Fact Sheets.

English-United States: Gilthead sources: Charles Hussey

Euskera: urraburu

French: dorade royale sources: Belgisch staatsblad 07-08-1996: Koninklijk besluit houdende reglementering van de benamingen van visserijprodukten en verwerkte visserijprodukten

Galician: dourada

German: Goldbrassen sources: Belgisch staatsblad 07-08-1996: Koninklijk besluit houdende reglementering van de benamingen van visserijprodukten en verwerkte visserijprodukten

Greek: Τσιπούρα sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Israel (Hebrew): ספרוס זהוב sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Italian: orata sources: Generalitat de Catalunya, Departament d'Agricultura, Ramaderia, Pesca, Alimentació i Medi Natural.

Polish: dorada

Portuguese: dourada sources: Davidson, A. (2001). North Atlantic fish cookbook [Noord-Atlantisch viskookboek]. Scepter: Bussum, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-72653-14-9. 556 pp.

Romanian: doradă

Russian: Золотистый спар sources: A.Boltachev & E. Karpova, IBSS NAS Ukraine

Slovenian: zlatobrov

Spanish, Castillian: dorada sources: Davidson, A. (2001). North Atlantic fish cookbook [Noord-Atlantisch viskookboek]. Scepter: Bussum, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-72653-14-9. 556 pp.

Swedish: guldsparid

Turkish: cipura sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Ukrainian: Спар золотистий sources: A.Boltachev & E. Karpova, IBSS NAS Ukraine

Welsh: merfog eurben

Literature

original description	Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp.
basis of record	Eschmeyer, W.: Catalog of fishes; California Academy of Sciences, department Ichtyology.
additional source	Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.
additional source	FishBase, version december 2007
additional source	FishBase, version may 2009
additional source	FishBase, version october 2012
additional source	Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013].

Genbank

Taxonomy

FishBase
WoRMS

External Links

FishBase
Barcode of Life (6 barcodes)
Biodiversity Heritage Library (135 publications)
GenBank (173213 nucleotides; 668 proteins)
GBIF

Citation

Bailly, N. (2014). Sparus aurata Linnaeus, 1758. In: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2014) FishBase. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:151523