Author: Rafinesque, 1810
FBname: Curled picarel
Remark: Placement in Sparidae from Centracanthidae from Santini <i>et al.</i> (2014:Ref. 95347).  Suggestion already made in Garrido-Ramos et al. 1995; Hanel & Sturmbauer 2000; Summerer et al. 2001; Orrell et al. 2002; Orrell & Carpenter 2004; Chiba et al. 2009; Hanel & Tsigenopoulos 2011.
Comments: Neritic.  Found over rocks or gravelly bottoms (Ref. 7349).  To depth of 200 m (Ref. 7349) and from 327-464 m in the eastern Ionian Sea (Ref. 56504).  Breeding stock approach the coast in summer (Ref. 6518).  Eggs are pelagic (Ref. 6518).