516 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 
ANALYSIS OF AMERICAN SPECIES OF SPARUS. 
a. Molar teeth in two series; teeth behind the canines slender; scales large (about 
55). (Pagrus.) ; 
b. Dorsal spines not elongate; second anal spine stronger but not longer than third, 
about 4 in head; pectoral fin elongate, reaching about to fourth soft ray of 
anal. Body oblong, the back moderately elevated, the profile parabolic; pre- 
orbital deep: D, x11, 10; A. 11, 8. Seales 6-56-13. Life color, golden olive; 
the middle of each scale pinkish, so that the fish appears red; sides and below 
flushed silvery; many scales of back and sides each with a round purplish-blue 
spot, these forming streaks along the rows of scales; fins mostly reddish. 
Paarus, 110. 
110. SPARUS PAGRUS. (Red Porgy.) 
Sparus pagrus L., Syst. Nat., ed. x, 1758, and of many authors. 
Sparus argenteus Bloch & Schneider, 1801, 271. 
Pagrus argenteus, Cuvier, Regne Animal, 1, 1817, 272. 
Pagrus vulgaris Cuy. & Val., v1, 142, 1830, and of most European writers. 
Pagrus argenteus, Goode & Bean, Proc. U. 8. N. M. 1879, 133 (Pensacola). 
Sparus pagrus, Jordan, Proc. U. 8S. N. M. 1882, 278 (Pensacola) and elsewhere. 
Habitat: Southern Europe and South Atlantic and Gulf coasts of 
the United States. 
Etymology: xéypos, pagrus, the old name, which has become pargo 
and porgy in modern tongues. 
This species, common in southern Europe, has been several times 
taken on the snapper banks about Pensacola. There seems to be no 
difference between American and European specimens, except that in 
European descriptions we find no allusion to the blue spots character- 
istic of the American fish. 
