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Alan Davidson

John Dory, Dory

Zeus faber Linnaeus

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top 1000North Atlantic Seafood
North Atlantic Seafood

By Alan Davidson

Published 1980

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Family Zeidae

  • Portuguese: Peixe galo, Peixe São Pedro
  • Spanish: Pez de San Pedro
  • French: Saint-Pierre
  • Dutch: Zonnevis
  • German: Heringskönig, Peterfisch
  • Swedish: Sankt Pers fisk
  • Norwegian: St Petersfisk
  • Danish: Sankt Peters-fisk

REMARKS Maximum length of females over 65 cm; of males about 45 cm. This is a yellowish-brown or greyish fish with a highly compressed body and characteristic thumb -prints on its sides, which have been attributed by most to St Peter but by some to St Christopher. (The touch of whichever saint may have imparted to the species its solitary habits, but not an ascetic attitude, for the John Dory uses its extendable mouth to engulf other fish voraciously.)

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