Rank Species | Scientific name Calamus penna Higher classification Calamus | |
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Similar Porgies, Calamus, Pluma porgy, Jolthead porgy, Saucereye porgy |
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Sheepshead porgy (Calamus penna) is a species of fish of the porgy family, Sparidae, only found in the Atlantic Ocean. Its teeth are like a sheep's. It is only distantly related with the California sheephead of the Pacific Ocean. Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn is named after this fish.






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