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Dog Snapper; Jocu
This excellent food-fish is known from Bahia north to the Florida Keys, occasionally straying north to Woods Hole. At Key West, where it is not very common, it reaches a weight of 20 pounds, though the average is much smaller. It is found most frequently in fall and winter about Key West. It does not seem to be abundant about Porto Rico, where it is called pargo colorado.
Colour, olivaceous above, rosy or brick-red on side, paler below, much flushed so that the general hue is coppery red; side with very narrow light cross-bars; a line of small round bluish spots below eye and across opercle; dorsal and caudal fins brick-red, the soft dorsal dusky at base; anal and ventrals yellowish.