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✨ Discovery of the day
Year: 1999
Dentex gibbosus (Hunchback)
This fish is more or less dark pink. Bears a small black spot just behind the soft dorsal, another purplish one at the axil of the pectorals going up to the upper angle of the operculum. 3rd to 5th spiny ray. Strong frontal hump in large males. Its common size varies between 50 and 75 cm and can reach 100 cm. It is found on sandy bottoms from 20 to 220 m. Reproduces in spring, protandric hermaphrodite (male then female). Carnivorous, it feeds on crustaceans, fish and cephalopods. It is caught by trawls, gillnets, bottom longlines, handlines and trolling lines. In Algeria, it bears the names of fireman and Hunchback.
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People's National Army
Stora Fishing Port
Béni Saf Fishing Port
Bouharoun Fishing Port
40th Anniversary of Sonelgaz
The Medersa Bridge (Constantine)
The El Kantara Bridge (Constantine)
The bridge of Sidi Rached (Constantine)
The bridge of Sidi M’cid (Constantine)
Skikda Station
Oran Train Station
Constantine Station
Algiers Station
Algiers Theater
Annaba Theater
Oran Theater
Setif Theater
Ras Afia Lighthouse (Jijel)
Cap Sigli Lighthouse (Bejaia)
Lighthouse of the islet of Arzew (Oran)
Seawater Desalination Plant
New Algiers Terminal
Headquarters of Algeria Post
