Pagrus pagrus (Linnaeus). Tener 
Head 3: depth 2 2/5; D.XII, 10, 1; A. III, 8, 1; scales 
58 in lateral line to caudal base and about 10 more on latter; 
8 scales above lateral line to spinous dorsal origin, 6 to soft 
dorsal origin and 14 below to spinous anal origin; 50 predorsal 
scales(‘to nearly opposite front eye edge); then 2 3/5 in head; 
eye 3 1/8; maxillary os, interorbital 3 1/5. 
Body ovoid, well compressed; least depth of caudal peduncle 
12 its length or 3 3/5 in head. Head width half its length, 
Snout compressed, pointed, width 11/6 its length. Eye large, 
elevated, 11/6 in snout. Mouth little inclined from horixontal, 
jaws even, Maxillary slightly beyond front eye edge; expansion 
Qs in eye. Front of jaws with outer series of broad short 
conic teeth, those directly in front smaller and more slender; 
upper hind teeth molar, 5 in outer row and inner row of Oy 
latter more forward; lower teeth like upper, only fewer conic 
ones forward; no others, Front nostril at last fourth in snout, 
porous; hind one oblique slit about twice as long, close above, 
Interorbital convex, Preopercle, preorbital and suprascapular 
edges entire, 
Rakers 7778, 11, lanceolate, i3 in filaments, which 
equal half of eye. Pseudobranchiae long as gillefilaments.. 
Scales in rows parallel above lateral line, in horizontal rows 
below; scales crowded about body edges, on head above and along 
bases of rayed dorsal and anal and out over caudal base; 9 or 
