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Bony fish

Pacific Porgy

Calamus brachysomus

Also known as: Porgy Grunt, Shad Porgy

LCLeast ConcernIUCN Red List, 2014
Adult
@pasalty118 · Hotel Buena Vista - Sea of Cortez, Mexico · July 20151 / 1
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Overview

Found singly or in schools, over mixed rock and sand bottoms of bays and reef flats.
Juveniles in very shallow waters.

Porgies are found in tropical as well as cooler waters, and are bottom-dwelling carnivores. Most species possess grinding, molar-like teeth, for eating crustaceans.

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How to identify

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Habitat & where to find it

  • Range · Eastern Pacific
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Found singly or in schools, over mixed rock and sand bottoms of bays and reef flats.

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Adult photos 1

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    Taxonomy

    1. kingdomAnimalia
    2. phylumChordata
    3. classTeleostei
    4. orderEupercaria incertae sedis
    5. familySparidae
    6. genusCalamus
    7. speciesCalamus brachysomus (Lockington, 1880)

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    More in the family

    Porgies (Sparidae)