John Dory

• The pale-ringed dark spot on each flank is interpreted as a decoy that draws attacks away from the head.
• It hunts by stalking: it approaches slowly and thrusts its mouth forward to suck in its prey, with no need to give chase.
• It spawns in late winter and early spring in the north-east Atlantic, and earlier in the Mediterranean.

Skeleton type

Vertebrate - internal bony skeleton (bony fish)

Habitat and environment

Bottoms close to the seabed between 5 and 400 m, normally between 50 and 150 m, in the eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean, the Black Sea and the western Indo-Pacific

Sexual maturity

3.5 years

Sources consulted: Wikipedia (es): Zeus faber