Author: Guichenot, 1868
FBname: Pluma porgy
Comments: Adults often seen over rocky areas or reefs, but also on flat bottoms to about 85 m depth, while the young inhabit shallower waters (Ref. 3815).  Feeds on crabs, mollusks, worms, brittle stars and hermit crabs (Ref. 3815).  This is the most common species of the genus in the Antilles (Ref. 3815).  Important food fish (Ref. 3815).