The Porgies
BODY oblong, more or less elevated, covered with rather large adherent scales, which are never truly ctenoid; lateral line well developed, concurrent with the back, not extending on caudal fin; head large; mouth small, terminal, low, and horizontal; premaxillaries little protractile; maxillary short, peculiar in form and in articulation, without supplemental bone; teeth strong, those in front of jaws conical, incisor-like, or molar; lateral teeth of jaws always blunt and molar; no teeth on vomer or palatines; pseudobranchiae large; gill-membranes separate, free from the isthmus; opercle without spines; sides of head usually scaly; dorsal fin single, sometimes deeply notched, the spines usually strong, depressible in a groove; spines heteracanthous, that is, alternating, the one stronger on the right side, the other on the left, the number 10 to 13; anal fin rather short, similar to the soft dorsal, with 3 spines; ventrals thoracic, with a more or less distinct scale-like appendage at base; caudal fin usually more or less concave behind; air-bladder present.
Common Scup; Scuppaug Stenotomus chrysops (Linnaeus)
Saucer-eye Porgy Calamus calamus (Cuvier & Valenciennes)
Little-head Porgy Calamus proridens (Jordan & Gilbert)
Jolt-head Porgy Calamus bajonado (Bloch & Schneider)- Chopa Amarilla; Salema Archosargus unimaculatus (Bloch)
Common Sheepshead Archosargus probatocephalus (Walbaum)