Species: Calamus cervigoni, Spotfin porgy
end spiny D: large black blotch
Calamus cervigoni Randall & Caldwell, 1966
Spotfin porgy
Body deep, compressed; head deep, snout short, blunt, nearly vertical, bump over eyes; eye large; rear nostril elongate to slit-like; mouth horizontal, reaches under eye, lips thin; bone under front of eye overlaps rear bone of top jaw; jaw teeth in 2 rows, conical and slender at front, equal sized canines at front of both jaws, none enlarged, molar teeth on sides (3 rows above, 2 below); preopercle border smooth; dorsal fin low, XII,11; anal fin short, III short spines, 10 soft rays; pectoral fin 15 (14-15) rays, fin relatively long, reaches to level of anal fin spines; cheeks and opercles scaly, but no scales on snout or between the eye and mouth; lateral line scales 44-48.
Overall silvery, with yellow-brown cast to back; faint dark bars on nape; a dark bar under eye; a conspicuous dark bar on dorsal fin at junction of spiny and soft parts; several thin oblique bars.
Size: to 20 cm.
Habitat: mud bottoms.
Depth: 10-90 m.
Colombia and Venezuela.
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- Salinity
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- Marine
- Marine Only
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore Only
- Inshore
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom
- Habitat
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- Mud
- Soft bottom only
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- FishBase Habitat
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- Demersal
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- Data
- Diet
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- Sea-stars/cucumbers/urchins
- Data
- Mobile benthic worms
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves
- Egg Type
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- Data
- Pelagic
- Pelagic larva
- Global Endemism
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- All species.
- West Atlantic Endemic
- Greater Caribbean endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- Continent
- All species..
- Continent only
- GC endemic
- Caribbean endemic
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Equatorial (0-10N, Costa Rica / Venezuela)
- IUCN Red List
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- Least concern
- Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 20
- Depth Range Min
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- 10
- Depth Range Max
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- 90
