St. Helena white seabream

Diplodus helenae
St. Helena white seabream (Diplodus sargus helenae)
Conservation status
Not evaluated (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Perciformes
Family:	Sparidae
Genus:	Diplodus
Species:	D. sargus helenae
Binomial name
Diplodus sargus helenae Sauvage, 1879
Synonyms
Sargus helenae Sauvage, 1879 Diplodus helenae Sauvage, 1879

St. Helena white seabream (Diplodus sargus helenae or Diplodus helenae) is a subspecies of Diplodus sargus, a sargo or a seabream, a marine fish of the Sparidae (Sparids) family. This pelagic-neritic fish grows to 31 cm long. It occurs in the southeast Atlantic, off the coast of St. Helena. The species are also endemic. The species were named by Henri Émile Sauvage in 1879.

Description

It feeds on invertebrates and algae.

Distribution

The fish are founded in waters down to 100 metres deep.

References

• Diplodocus sargus helenae at FishBase

Further reading

• Eschmeyer, William N., ed. 1998. Catalog of Fishes. Special Publication of the Center for Biodiversity Research and Information, no. 1, vol. 1-3. California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco, California, USA. 2905. ISBN 0-940228-47-5.
• Fenner, Robert M. The Conscientious Marine Aquarist. Neptune City, New Jersey, USA: T.F.H. Publications, 2001.
• Helfman, G., B. Collette and D. Facey: The diversity of fishes. Blackwell Science, Malden, Massachusetts, USA, 1997.
• Hoese, D.F. 1986. A M.M. Smith and P.C. Heemstra (eds.) Smiths' sea fishes. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany
• Maugé, L.A. 1986. A J. Daget, J.-P. Gosse and D.F.E. Thys van den Audenaerde (eds.) Check-list of the freshwater fishes of Africa (CLOFFA). ISNB, Brussels; MRAC, Tervuren, Flanders; and ORSTOM, Paris, France, Vol. 2.
• Moyle, P. and J. Cech.: Fishes: An Introduction to Ichthyology, 4th ed., Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, USA: Prentice-Hall. 2000.
• Nelson, J.: Fishes of the World, 3rd ed.. New York, USA: John Wiley and Sons., 1994