Fish of the Serranus genus of the Serraninae subfamily of the Serranidae family of the superfamily Percoidea of the Percoidei suborder of the Perciformes order of the Acanthopterygii superorder.
(Painted comber. Photo by © Xavi Lindo. xavilindo.cat)
Painted comber (Serranus scriba) was first described in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778).
It inhabits the depth of 5-150 meters, usually up to 30 meters. It prefers to swim close to a rocky bottom, often in thickets of Posidonia. The maximum recorded length is 36 cm, specimens up to 25 cm long are more common. The maximum weight is about 600 grams. It feeds on fish and crustaceans.
(Painted comber. Photo by © Raimundo Fernandez. flickr.com/photos/rferdiez)
It is a permanent inhabitant of the Adriatic Sea.
Names of painted comber (Serranus scriba) in other languages as follows:
Kerri bilbil (Albanian), Πέρκα (Perka) (Greek), Okonus adom (Hebrew), Serrano (Spanish), Sciarrano (Italian), Schriftbarsch (German), Strzępiel pisarz (Polish), Serrano-riscado (Portuguese), Biban marin (Romanian), Каменный окунь–зебра (Kamennyj okunj–zebra) (Russian), Pirka (Serbian, Croatian), Pisanica (Slovenian), Yazılı hani (Turkish), Serran écriture (French), Kanic písmenkový (Czech).