Species: Calamus cervigoni, Spotfin Porgy

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.