Sipar
Trachurus trachurus
#nm_0250📍 Turkish Black Sea
- Language
- Turkish
- Transliteration
- Sipar
- IPA
- /sipaɾ/
Laz-origin regional name (Rize / E. Black Sea); attested in Laz dialect as sipa / sipai (Azlaga-Hopa area). Meaning undocumented; distinct from standard istavrit.
Atlantic horse mackerel (common scad), a jack of the family Carangidae. Slender, laterally compressed body with a large head, two dorsal fins, and a distinctive curved row of bony scutes along the flank; dark blue above with silvery sides and a dark spot on the gill cover. A migratory, shoaling, benthopelagic fish of the eastern Atlantic, Mediterranean and Black Sea, usually over sandy bottoms at 100-200 m; commonly ~25 cm, max ~60 cm.