Pogonias cromis

ingliseSilvery grey to very dark, young with 4 or 5 black vertical bars on sides, disappearing with growth; pelvic and anal fins usually dark. Chin with 5 pores and 10 to 13 pairs of small barbels along median edges of lower jaws and subopercles, increasing in length posteriorly. Gas bladder with numerous lateral appendages interconnected in a complicated pattern in adult. Sagitta semicircular and moderately thin (Ref 51721).

• Sciaena barbata Larrañaga, 1923
• Labrus cromis Linnaeus, 1766
• Pogonias fasciatus Lacepède, 1801
• Pogonathus courbina Lacepède, 1803