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Archosargus
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Archosargus

Archosargus is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Sparidae, the sea breams and porgies. These fishes occur in the Western Atlantic and Eastern Pacific Oceans.

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4 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 4 known species

Sheepshead

speciesArchosargus probatocephalus

Western Atlantic Seabream

speciesArchosargus rhomboidalis

Blackspot Porgy

speciesArchosargus pourtalesii

Archosargus aries

speciesArchosargus aries

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 49752.