Genus: Lagodon, Pinfish Porgy, Pinfishes

LAGODON

PINFISHES

Body deep, oval, compressed; head not deep, snout pointed; mouth small, opens at front; bone under front of eye overlaps rear bone of top jaw; both jaws with flattened, broad, deeply notched incisors at front, 2 (mainly)-3 rows of molar-like teeth at sides; preopercle border smooth; dorsal fin low, XIII, 1st spine small, forward-pointing, sometimes buried under skin; anal fin III, 11; pectoral longer than pelvic; cheeks and opercles scaly, but no scales on snout or between the eye and mouth.

This is a tropical to temperate genus with one W Atlantic member, which occurs in our region.