Cabrilla

Serranus cabrilla

Blue sketch illustration of Cabrilla
Kosher
Has fins and scales
Fins Yes
Scales Yes
Description

The comber is a species of marine ray-finned fish from the family Serranidae, the sea basses. It is widely distributed in the eastern North and South Atlantic Oceans and into the southwestern Indian Ocean.

The comber is eaten and also processed into fishmeal, though it has low commercial value.

The comber, known in some regions as cabrilla, is a marine sea bass of the eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and Black Seas, and the southwestern Indian Ocean. It lives over rocks, seagrass beds, and sand or mud bottoms down to about 450 m.

Also known as

  • Comber
  • Sea Perch

Kosher Cabrilla in foreign languages

ScientificSerranus cabrilla
Spanish Cabrilla
French Serran chèvre
Italian Perchia
German Sägebarsch
Greek Χάνος
Russian Каменный окунь-ханос
Chinese 九帶鮨
Warnings & Kosher Issues
  • Kosher: a sea bass with fins and scales, so it is a kosher fish.