SPARIDAE

Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C. & Abohweyere, P. O., 2003, A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London, Journal of Natural History 37 (18), pp. 2213-2267 : 2245

SPARIDAE

On average about 50 000 tonnes of sea breams are caught in the region each year ( FAO, 2000). Some 12 species have been recorded from the mainland coast of tropical West Africa (Poll, 1954; Bauchot and Hureau in Quéro et al., 1990: 790–812) of which nine were recorded from Ghana by Irvine (see also table 1). The characters separating the various species of Dentex do not appear to be well quantified and a review of this genus for the eastern Atlantic is required.