Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Vertebrata > Infraphylum Gnathostomata > Parvphylum Osteichthyes > Gigaclass Actinopterygii > Subclass Neopterygii > Class Teleostei > Order Eupercaria incertae sedis > Family Sparidae > Genus Pagellus

Pagellus erythrinus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Pagellus*	Valenciennes, 1830	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Sparus erythrinus*	Linnaeus, 1758	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Albanian: eritrini; spalca e kuqe 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: pagell; pitxell sources: Generalitat de Catalunya, Departament d'Agricultura, Ramaderia, Pesca, Alimentació i Medi Natural.;TermCat, The Center for Terminology.

Danish: rød blankesten sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Dutch: gewone zeebrasem

English: pandora sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

French: pagel; pageot commum sources: Davidson, A. (2003). Mediterranean fish cookbook [Mediterraan viskookboek]. Pereboom: Bussum, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-77455-10-8. 436 pp.;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.

German: Rotbrasse

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

Hebrew: ורדית שישנית sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Italian: fragolino; pagello bastardo sources: Generalitat de Catalunya, Departament d'Agricultura, Ramaderia, Pesca, Alimentació i Medi Natural.

Norwegian Bokmål: rødpagell sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Nynorsk: raudpagell sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Portuguese: bica sources: Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024).

Russian: Пагр красный sources: A.Boltachev & E. Karpova, IBSS NAS Ukraine

Slovenian: ribon

Spanish, Castillian: breca sources: Generalitat de Catalunya, Departament d'Agricultura, Ramaderia, Pesca, Alimentació i Medi Natural.

Swedish: rödpagell sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

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

Ukrainian: Пагель червоний; Пагр червоний sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points;A.Boltachev & E. Karpova, IBSS NAS Ukraine

Welsh: pandora

Literature

basis of record	van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 357-374
additional source	Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2025). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco. Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2025.
additional source	Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024).
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.
ecology source	Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. Scientific Data. 10(1).

Genbank

External Links

FishBase images (Pagellus erythrinus, Canary Is., by Hernández-González, C.L.)
FishBase

Citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Pagellus erythrinus (Linnaeus, 1758). Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:127060