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Archosargus or Diplodus probatocephalus
Sheepshead Sheeps"head`, n. [So called because of the fancied resemblance of its head and front teeth to those of a sheep.] (Zo["o]l.) A large and valuable sparoid food fish (Archosargus, or Diplodus, probatocephalus) found on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It often weighs from ten to twelve pounds. Note: The name is also locally, in a loose way, applied to various other fishes, as the butterfish, the fresh-water drumfish, the parrot fish, the porgy, and the moonfish.

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- Archosargus probatocephalus, the sheepshead, sheepshead seabream or convict fish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Sparidae...
- well as its size”. Archosargus contains the following species: Archosargus aries (Valenciennes, 1830) (Southern sheepshead) Archosargus pourtalesii (Steindachner...
- Western Atlantic seabream (Archosargus rhomboidalis) is an ocean-going species of fish in the family, Sparidae. It was first described in 1758 by the...
- Archosargus pourtalesii, the blackspot porgy or Galápagos seabream, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Sparidae, the seabreams...
- free dictionary. Sheepshead, Sheephead, or Sheep's Head, may refer to: Archosargus probatocephalus, a medium-sized sal****er fish of the Atlantic Ocean...
- collected on Archosargus probatocephalus from Florida. The species was also redescribed by Mendoza-Franco et al. in 2018, from Archosargus rhomboidalis...
- genera: Acanthopagrus Peters, 1855 Amamiichthys F. Tanaka & Iwatsuki, 2015 Archosargus Gill, 1865 Argyrops Swainson, 1839 Argyrozona J. L. B. Smith, 1938 Boops...
- Scup Sea b**** Sea chubs Sea perch Sea robin Sea trout Shad Sheepshead (Archosargus probatocephalus) Sierra Silver hake Silverside Skipjack Smallmouth b****...
- pursued by recreational anglers. African pompano African threadfish Archosargus probatocephalus Arripis trutta Atlantic Spanish mackerel Australasian...
- to: Pholidichthys leucotaenia, a sea-dwelling species Convict cichlid Archosargus probatocephalus, a species of fish native to the Atlantic Ocean also...