Porgies Flashcards
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Whitebone Porgy
- Bluish silver
- Blue lines above and below eye
- Snout purplish gray
- Up to 18 inches
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Sauceryeye Porgy
- Similar to Jolthead Porgy
- Slope in head is greater
- Blue line below eye
- Bluish blotch at base of pectoral fin
- Can develop dark blotches
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Sheepshead Porgy
- Silvery
- No blue markings on head
- Small black spot on upper pectoral fins
- Up to 18 inches
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Jolthead Porgy
- Silvery/brassy with bluish cast
- Blue line along lower rim of eye
- Whitish stripe below eye and another closer to mouth
- Corner of mouth orange
- Up to 2 ft
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Sheepshead
- Silvery
- 5 -6 black vertical bands across body
- Humanlike teeth
- up to 20 lbs
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Knobbed Porgy
- Deep body
- Snout dark purplish gray with bronze spots
- Large blue spot at base of pectoral fin
- Up to 18 inches
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Pinfish
- Dark shoulder spot is centered on lateral line (sea breams is just below)
- 4 dark faded cross bars
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Red Porgy
- Round rear nostril
- Silvery red
- Many blue spots
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Spottail Pinfish
- Similar to the Silver Porgy but much darker
- Dark saddle on caudal peduncle can make a ring
- 8 faint bars on body
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Sea Bream
- Bluish silver
- Narrow bronze stripes
- Dark blotch on shoulder just below lateral line
- orangish anal and pelvic fins
- Up to 13 inches
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Silver Porgy
- Silvery
- 9 faint dusky vertical bars
- large black spot on both top sides of caudal peduncle (often forms a saddle)
- all fins yellowish except pelvic fin
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Longspine Porgy
- Very long dorsal spines
- Bony knob before dorsal spines
- Profile concave between eyes and dorsal fin
- Incisorlike teeth
- Up to 1 ft.
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Grass Porgy
- Dark bar through eye to corner of mouth
- Dark blotches arranged in 4 or 5 bars
- Blotch near front of lateral line is most prominent
- Dark V at base of caudal fin
- Up to 10 inches
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Littlehead Porgy
- Similar to Knobbed Porgy but snout and cheek bluish gray with wavy dark blue lines
- each scale on upper body has blue line going through it
- no spot on pectoral fin
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Scup
- Dull silvery
- Faint irregular dark bars (bar closest to midpoint darkest)
- Pale blue flecks, 12 - 15 indistinct stripes
- Blue stripe along base of dorsal fin
- Incisorlike front teeth
- Rare south of NC
