Zeus faber - John Dory

Taxonomy

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Actinopterygii

Order: Zeiformes

Family: Zeidae

This strange looking fish occasionally turns up in catches made by boat anglers around the coast of Wales.

A 5lb 7oz (approx 2.5kg) specimen was caught in Cardigan Bay in 1973, and that fish still holds the Welsh rod-caught record for this remarkable species.

Coarse fish... Common Bream Barbel Carp Pike Gudgeon Ruffe Chub Dace Perch Minnow Roach Rudd Wels catfish Tench The Aquarium

Sea fish... Wolf Eel Red Gurnard Rockling Conger eel Grey Mullet Bass Grey Gurnard Cod Tope Ballan Wrasse Cuckoo Wrasse Dab Red Mullet Starry Smoothhound Flounder Plaice Pollack Common Skate Thornback Ray Undulate Ray Mackerel Turbot Lesser-spotted Dogfish Huss Gilthead Bream Black Bream Scad Tub Gurnard Pout John Dory The Aquarium

Game fish... Rainbow Trout Brown Trout Sea Trout (Sewin) Atlantic Salmon Grayling The Aquarium

Rare fish... Rainbow Trout Gwyniad Bullhead Stickleback Sea Lamprey The Aquarium

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Fish Links... Salmon & Trout Association Association of Rivers Trusts