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Definition of Sheepshead porgy
1. Noun. From Florida and Bahamas to Brazil.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sheepshead Porgy
Literary usage of Sheepshead porgy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Food and Game Fishes: A Popular Account of All the Species Found in by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1902)
"The little-mouth porgy or sheepshead porgy (C penna) occurs from southern Florida
to Brazil. It is fairly abundant and widely distributed. ..."
2. American Fishes: A Popular Treatise Upon the Game and Food Fishes of North by George Brown Goode, Theodore Gill (1903)
"A fish known as the " sheepshead porgy " is said by Stearns to be common in the
Gulf of Mexico and about the Florida Reefs. It is caught with hook and line, ..."
3. The Bahama Islands by George Burbank Shattuck (1905)
"CALAMUS PENNA (Cuvier and Valenciennes) (sheepshead porgy). Like the rest of the
species this is valued as food. It is very common from southern Florida to ..."
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