Species: Stenotomus caprinus, Longspine Porgy
Stenotomus caprinus Jordan & Gilbert, 1882
Longspine Porgy
Body very deep, oval, compressed; head deep, upper profile steep, with a bump before eye; rear nostril a slit; preopercle border smooth; mouth small, opens at front; bone under front of eye overlaps rear bone of top jaw; front jaw teeth are strongly flattened incisors, narrow tips and with narrowing bases, close-set, in bands, 2 rows of molar teeth on sides of jaws; margin of preopercle smooth; dorsal fin XIII, 12, 1st 2 spines very short, 1st points forward, 3rd-5th spines very long, filamentous; anal fin III strong spines, 11 soft rays; pectoral very long, reaches past 3rd anal spine; tail forked; about 50 lateral line scales; cheeks and opercles scaly, but no scales on snout or between the eye and mouth.
Silvery, olivaceous on back; young with faint dark bars.
Reaches 30 cm.
Lives on mud bottoms.
Depth range: 5-185 m.
Delaware to the Gulf of Mexico.
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- Salinity
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- Marine
- Marine Only
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore
- Inshore Only
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom
- Habitat
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- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- Soft bottom only
- Mud
- FishBase Habitat
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- Demersal
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- Data
- Diet
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- Data
- Bony fishes
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves
- Mobile benthic worms
- Sea-stars/cucumbers/urchins
- Egg Type
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- Data
- Pelagic
- Pelagic larva
- Global Endemism
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- All species
- Greater Caribbean endemic
- West Atlantic Endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- Continent
- Continent only
- GC endemic
- All species
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Subtropical (23-35N, Florida / Carolinas / Bermuda)
- IUCN Red List
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- Least concern
- Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 30
- Depth Range Min
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- 5
- Depth Range Max
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- 185
