The Bass and their Relatives 



and dullest in color. Calamus calamus is the saucer-eye porgy, 

 and Calamus proridens, the little-head porgy. Calamus leucosteus 

 is called white-bone porgy, and the small Calamus arctifrons 

 the grass-porgy. 



The Chopa spina, or pinfish, Lagodon rhomboides, is a little 

 porgy with notched incisors, exceedingly common on our South 

 Atlantic coast. 



In some of the porgies the front teeth instead of being canine- 

 like are compressed and truncate, almost exactly like human 

 incisors. These species are known as sheepshead, or sargos. 



Diplodus sargus and Diplodus annularis are common sargos of 

 the Mediterranean, silvery, with a black blotch on the back of 



FIG. 284. Diplodus holbrooki Bean. Pensacola. 



the tail. Diplodus argenteus of the West Indies and Diplodus 

 holbrooki of the Carolina coast are very close to these. 



The sheepshead, Archosargus probatocephalus, is much the 

 most valuable fish of this group. The broad body is crossed 

 by about seven black cross-bands. It is common from Cape 

 Cod to Texas in sandy bays, reaching rarely a weight of fifteen 

 pounds. Its flesh is most excellent, rich and tender. The 

 sheepshead is a quiet bottom-fish, but takes the hook readily 

 and with some spirit. Close to the sheepshead is a smaller 

 species known as Salema (Archosargus unimaculatus) , with blue 



