Grass Porgy

Credit: Illustration by Diane Rome Peebles

Family Sparidae

Description: pale tan to silvery; dark olive above; dark bar across nape extends through eye to corner of mouth; dark blotches on body, in about 5 vertical and 4 horizontal series, suggesting interrupted bars and stripes; blotch near front of lateral line most proiminent; dark V at base of caudal fin; lobes of caudal fin with dark bars

Size: to 25 centimeters (10 inches)

Where found: inshore seagrass beds