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Little-head Porgy
West Indies, north to the Florida Keys, and moderately common at Key West. It is the most brightly coloured species, reaches a foot in length, and may be readily distinguished from the saucer-eye, which it resembles, by the different colouration. Colour in life, silvery, with bright reflections above, much brighter than any other species; each scale above middle of side with a spot of rich violet-blue on its base, these forming distinct longitudinal streaks; lower parts of body with pale orange spots.