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Encyclopedia Britannica



SHEEPSHEAD

This article appears in Volume V24, Page 822 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SHA-SIV
SHEEPSHEAD , the name of one of the largest species of the genus Sargus, marine fishes known on the coasts of S. Europe as " sargo " or " saragu." These fishes possess two kinds of teeth:one, broad and flat, like incisors, occupying in a single.
series
  the front of the jaws; the other, semiglobular and molar-like, arranged in several
series
  on the sides of the jaws. The genus belongs to the Acanthopterygian family Sparidae which includes the Sea-breams. The sheepshead, Sargus ovis, occurs in abundance on the
Atlantic
  coasts of the United States, from Cape Cod to
Florida
 , and is one of the most valued food-fishes of
,Sheepshead.
North America. It is said to attain to a length of 30 in. and a
weight
  of 15 lb. Its food consists of shellfish, which it detaches with its incisors from the base to which they are fixed, crushing them with its powerful molars. It may be distinguished from other allied species by seven or eight dark
cross
 -bands traversing the
body
 , by a recumbent spine in front of the dorsal fin, by twelve spines and as many rays of the dorsal and ten rays of the anal fin, and by
forty
 -six scales along the lateral line. The
term
  " sheepshead " is also given in some parts of North America to a
freshwater
  Sciaenoid, Corvina oscula, which is much less esteemed for the table.


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