Picnic seabream

Acanthopagrus berda

Fish
IUCN: Least concern

Usual depth0–25 m
Water temperature18–29 °C
Best monthsAugust, October, and November
How commonRare

Photo credit: (c) BEDO (Thailand), some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) · CC BY-SA · iNaturalist

About this species

Acanthopagrus berda, the goldsilk seabream, sly bream, picnic seabream, black sea bream, black porgy, picky bream, silver bream or river bream, is a species of ray-finned fish belonging to the family Sparidae, the sea breams and porgies. This species is found in the Indian Ocean.

Text from the Wikipedia article “Acanthopagrus berda”, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the article

Where and when

Where it has been recorded

Worldwide

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Best months

Worldwide (open data)

January: 12 records
February: 15 records
March: 15 records
April: 10 records
May: 14 records
June: 12 records
July: 15 records
August: 17 records
September: 12 records
October: 18 records
November: 24 records
December: 16 records

Depth and water temperature

Depth

Mostly recorded at 0–25 m · Deepest record: 24.5 m

0–10 m: 10 records
10–20 m: 0 records
20–30 m: 2 records

Water temperature

Recorded in surface water of 18–29 °C

18–20 °C: 4 records
20–22 °C: 11 records
22–24 °C: 59 records
24–26 °C: 28 records
26–28 °C: 25 records
28–30 °C: 15 records

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Names and classification

English: Picnic seabream, Barnard Fish, Black Bream, Black Porgy, Black Sea-bream, Black Sea Bream, Dark-finned Black Porgy, Goldsilk Bream, Goldsilk Seabream, Goldsilk seabream, Mylio berda, Picnic seabream, Grey Fin Sea Bream, Perch, Pickey Bream, picnic seabream, Pikey Black Bream, Pikey Bream, River Bream, Seabream, Sly Bream

Names in 5 more languages

German: Fluss-Meerbrasse
Spanish: Espárido, Sargo Picnic
French: Pagre Berda, Pagre Picnic, Pagre picnic, Pagre berda, Sparide
Thai: ปลาอีคุด
Simplified Chinese: 灰鰭棘鯛, 灰鰭鯛, 烏格, 烏鯮

Other scientific names: Acanthopagrus bertha, Acanthopagrus calamara, Chrysophrys berda, Chrysophrys calamara, Chrysophrys madagascariensis, Chrysophrys robinsoni, Mylio berda, Pagrus berda, Pagrus robinsoni, Sparus berda, Sparus calamara, Sparus hasta, Sparus madagascariensis

Similar species

King soldierbream
Argyrops spinifer

Sources and credits

Names and taxonomy: WoRMS (CC BY 4.0) and the GBIF Backbone (CC BY 4.0). Photos: iNaturalist observers, each under the licence shown (CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA).

Depth, temperature, months and maps: records from OBIS and GBIF under CC0 or CC BY.
Descriptions: Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA, each linked to its article.
Conservation status as published by GBIF (IUCN Red List).
380 open-data records from 1775 to 2012.
Species data updated October 26, 2026.

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