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Bony fish

Saucereye Porgy

Calamus calamus

Also known as: Goat's Head Porgy, Porgy Grunt

LCLeast ConcernIUCN Red List, 2014
Adult
@gdiaz · Key Largo, United States · September 20131 / 5
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Overview

Found swimming or hovering above sand bottoms and seagrass beds over coral and rocky reefs, often display body bars when close to the bottom feeding.
Juveniles found in sea grass beds.

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 · Western Atlantic, Caribbean
  • Exact location · 2
  • Country only · 3
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Found swimming or hovering above sand bottoms and seagrass beds over coral and rocky reefs, often display body bars when close to the bottom feeding.

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    Taxonomy

    1. kingdomAnimalia
    2. phylumChordata
    3. classTeleostei
    4. orderEupercaria incertae sedis
    5. familySparidae
    6. genusCalamus
    7. speciesCalamus calamus (Valenciennes, 1830)

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    More in the family

    Porgies (Sparidae)