Species: Diplodus argenteus caudimacula, Silver porgy
Diplodus argenteus caudimacula (Poey, 1860)
Silver porgy
Body deep, oval, compressed; head small, deep, snout pointed; mouth small, opens at front, barely reaches to below front edge of eye; bone under front of eye overlaps rear bone of top jaw; jaw teeth in 2 rows, strongly flattened, broad incisors at front, 3 rows of molars at sides; preopercle border smooth; 17-20 gill rakers; dorsal fin low, XII, 13-14, longest spine 47.5% of head length, 1st spine not pointing forwards; anal fin short, III short spines, 12-14 rays; pectoral long, much longer than pelvic; cheeks and opercles scaly, but no scales on snout or between the eye and mouth; 56-65 scales on lateral line.
Silvery, with 8-9 faint dark bars in small fish; a conspicuous black blotch larger than eye on upper half of tail base, extending only a little below lateral line; opercular membrane blackish.
Reaches 30 cm.
Shallow clear coastal waters over rocky and coral bottoms.
Depth range: 0-25 m.
North Carolina to the S Caribbean.
Note: A different subspecies (Diplodus argenteus argenteus) occurs in Brazil.
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- Marine
- Marine Only
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- Inshore Only
- Inshore
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- Bottom
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- Submerged vegetation
- Corals
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Reef only
- Rocks
- FishBase Habitat
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- Reef Associated
- Demersal
- Feeding Group
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- Omnivore
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- Detritivore
- Diet
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- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
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- Pelagic
- Pelagic larva
- Global Endemism
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- All species.
- West Atlantic Endemic
- Greater Caribbean endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- Continent + Island (s)
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- Island (s)
- GC endemic
- Continent
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Tropical (10-23N, Nicaragua / Cuba)
- Equatorial (0-10N, Costa Rica / Venezuela)
- Subtropical (23-35N, Florida / Carolinas / Bermuda)
- IUCN Red List
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- Least concern
- Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Depth Range Min
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- 0
- Depth Range Max
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- 25
- Length Max
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- 30
