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Littlehead Porgy

Calamus proridens

Classification

Family
Sparidae

The littlehead porgy (Calamus proridens) is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Sparidae, the seabreams and porgies. They are only found in the western portion of the tropical Atlantic Ocean, where they are often caught and used as food. Taxonomy The Littlehead porgy was first formally described in 1884 by the Ichthyologists David Starr Jordan and Charles Henry Gilbert with its type locality given as Key West in Florida.

Distribution

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