Species: Diplodus holbrookii, Spottail Pinfish, Spottail Pinfish Porgy
Diplodus holbrookii (Bean, 1878)
Spottail pinfish
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; 50-61 scales on lateral line.
Back steel blue, sides silvery; young with dark bars; a large 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 46 cm.
Shallow coastal waters, especially over vegetated bottoms; rarely in brackish water.
Depth range: 0-33 m.
Chesapeake Bay to the Gulf of Mexico.
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- Salinity
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- Marine
- Brackish
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore Only
- Inshore
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom
- Habitat
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- Estuary
- Reef and soft bottom
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Sand & gravel
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Submerged vegetation
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- FishBase Habitat
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- Reef Associated
- Demersal
- Feeding Group
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- Planktivore
- Ectoparasite cleaner
- Data
- Omnivore
- Diet
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- Benthic microalgae
- Data
- Benthic macroalgae/seagrasses
- Zooplankton
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Ectoparasites
- Bony fishes
- Sponges/seasquirts/bryozoa
- Mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves
- Egg Type
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- Data
- Pelagic
- Pelagic larva
- Global Endemism
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- West Atlantic Endemic
- Greater Caribbean non-endemic
- All species.
- Regional Endemism
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- GC non-endemic
- Continent
- Continent only
- All species..
- Extends North of GC
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Subtropical (23-35N, Florida / Carolinas / Bermuda)
- Temperate (>35N)
- IUCN Red List
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- Least concern
- Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 46
- Depth Range Min
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- 0
- Depth Range Max
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- 33
