Species: Calamus campechanus, Campeche porgy

Calamus campechanus Randall & Caldwell, 1966

Campeche porgy

Body oval, compressed, deep; head deep, upper profile convex and steep (angle of 60-68 degrees to horizontal); rear nostril slit-like;  large mouth with thick lips, heavy lower jaw; bone under front of eye overlaps rear bone of top jaw; both jaws with similar sized canines at front, none enlarged and none curved outwards; 2 rows of molars at side of lower jaw, 3 rows on top jaw, top jaw without an irregular series inside and at front; preopercle border smooth; gill rakers 12 (10-12); dorsal fin low, XII-XIII,11-12; anal fin short, III short spines, 9-10 soft rays; pectoral 15 (14-16 rays), fin relatively short (28-33% SL, reaching half way between pelvic tip and anus); tail fin forked; cheeks and opercles scaly, but no scales on snout or between the eye and mouth; lateral line scales 45-49.