Species: Diplodus bermudensis, Bermuda Porgy

Diplodus bermudensis Caldwell, 1965

Bermuda 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; both jaws with 6 strongly flattened, broad incisors at front, 3 rows of molar like teeth at sides; preopercle border smooth; 18-21 gill rakers; dorsal fin low, XII, 13-16, longest spine 40% of head length, 1st spine not pointing forwards; anal fin short, III short spines, 13-15 rays; pectoral long, much longer than pelvic; cheeks and opercles scaly, but no scales on snout or between the eye and mouth; 62-67 scales on lateral line.

Silvery, with 8-9 faint dark bars in small fish; a conspicuous black blotch larger than eye on upper part of tail base, which extends below lateral line, nearly to lower edge of tail base; opercular membrane blackish.

Reaches 32 cm.

Shallow clear coastal waters over rocky and coral bottoms.

Depth range: 0-25 m.

Known only from Bermuda.