porgy

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Pagrus pagrus, red porgy

food fish of the Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts of Europe and America

Calamus penna, sheepshead porgy

from Florida and Bahamas to Brazil

Stenotomus chrysops, northern porgy, northern scup, scup

found in Atlantic coastal waters of North America from South Carolina to Maine; esteemed as a panfish

Stenotomus aculeatus, scup, southern porgy, southern scup

porgy of southern Atlantic coastal waters of North America

Type of:

bream, sea bream

any of numerous marine percoid fishes especially (but not exclusively) of the family Sparidae