The St. Helena white seabream (''Diplodus helenae'') is a species of seabream, a marine fish of the family

Sparidae The Sparidae are a family of fish in the order Perciformes, commonly called sea breams and porgies. The sheepshead, scup, and red seabream are species in this family. Most sparids are deep-bodied compressed fish with a small mouth separated by a ...

. The species was named by

Henri Émile Sauvage Henri Émile Sauvage (22 September 1842 in Boulogne-sur-Mer – 3 January 1917 in Boulogne-sur-Mer) was a French paleontologist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist. He was a leading expert on Mesozoic fish and reptiles.benthopelagic fish grows to an average length of 20 cm, maximum 31 cm.''Diplodocus helenae'' at FishBase
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Distribution

The fish inhabits rocky bottoms in waters between 5 and 15 metres depth. It occurs in the southeastern Atlantic, off the coast of

Saint Helena Saint Helena () is a British overseas territory located in the South Atlantic Ocean. It is a remote volcanic tropical island west of the coast of south-western Africa, and east of Rio de Janeiro in South America. It is one of three constitu ...

References

* Eschmeyer, William N., ed. 1998. Catalog of Fishes. Special Publication of the Center for Biodiversity Research and Information, no. 1, vol. 1–3. California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco, California, USA. 2905. . * Fenner, Robert M. ''The Conscientious Marine Aquarist''. Neptune City, New Jersey, USA: T.F.H. Publications, 2001. * Helfman, G., B. Collette and D. Facey: ''The diversity of fishes''. Blackwell Science, Malden, Massachusetts, USA, 1997. * Hoese, D.F. 1986. A M.M. Smith and P.C. Heemstra (eds.) Smiths' sea fishes. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany * Maugé, L.A. 1986. A J. Daget, J.-P. Gosse and D.F.E. Thys van den Audenaerde (eds.) Check-list of the freshwater fishes of Africa (CLOFFA). ISNB, Brussels; MRAC, Tervuren, Flanders; and ORSTOM, Paris, France, Vol. 2. * Moyle, P. and J. Cech.: ''Fishes: An Introduction to Ichthyology'', 4th ed., Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, USA: Prentice-Hall. 2000. * Nelson, J.: ''Fishes of the World'', 3rd ed.. New York, USA: John Wiley and Sons., 1994 Fauna of Saint Helena Fish of the Atlantic Ocean Fish described in 1879 Taxa named by Henri Émile Sauvage Diplodus {{Perciformes-stub

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