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Knobbed Porgy
Calamus nodosus
The knobbed porgy, Calamus nodosus, is an ocean-going species of gamefish of the Sparidae (Bream/Porgy family). They are only found in the western portion of the tropical Atlantic Ocean, where they are often caught with trawling nets or by angling, and used as food. The Knobbed porgy was named by John Randall and David Caldwell as part of a 1966 review of the Calamus genus, which was published in the academic journal Science. Randall and Caldwell...
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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 317015.