The pigfishes, _Orthopristis_, have the spines feebler and the anal fin more elongate. Of the many species, American and Mediterranean, _Orthopristis chrysopterus_ is most familiar, ranging northward to Long Island, and excellent as a pan fish. _Parapristipoma trilineatum_, the Isaki of Japan, is equally abundant and very similar to it. Many related species belong to the Asiatic genera, _Terapon_, _Scolopsis_, _Cæsio_, etc., sometimes placed in a distinct family as _Teraponidæ_. _Terapon servus_ enters the streams of Polynesia, and is a very common fish of the river mouths, taken in Samoa by the boys. _Terapon theraps_ is found throughout the East Indies. _Terapon richardsoni_ is the Australian silver perch. _Cæsio_ contains numerous small species, elongate and brightly colored, largely blue and golden. _Scolopsis_, having a spine on the preorbital, contains numerous species in the East Indies and Polynesia. These are often handsomely colored. Among them is the taiva, _Scolopsis trilineatus_ of Samoa, gray with white streaks and markings of delicate pattern. A fossil species in the Italian Eocene related to _Pomadasis_ is _Pomadasis furcatus_. Another, perhaps allied to _Terapon_, is called _Pelates quindecimalis_. [Illustration: FIG. 279.—The Red Tai of Japan, _Pagrus major_ Schlegel. Family _Sparidæ_. (After Kishinouye.) ] =The Porgies: Sparidæ.=—The great family of _Sparidæ_ or porgies is also closely related to the _Hæmulidæ_. The most tangible difference rests in the teeth, which are stronger, and some of those along the side of the jaw are transformed into large blunt molars, fitted for grinding small crabs and shells. The name porgy, in Spanish pargo, comes from the Latin _Pagrus_ and Greek πάγρος, the name from time immemorial of the red porgy of the Mediterranean, _Pagrus pagrus_. In this species the front teeth are canine-like, the side teeth molar. It is a fine food-fish, very handsome, being crimson with blue spots, and in the Mediterranean it is much esteemed. It also breeds sparingly on our south Atlantic and Gulf coasts. [Illustration: FIG. 280.—Ebisu, the Fish-god of Japan, bearing a Red Tai. (Sketch by Kako Morita.) ] [Illustration: FIG. 281.—Scup, _Stenotomus chrysops_ (Linnæus). Wood's Hole, Mass. ] [Illustration: FIG. 282.—_Calamus bajonado_ (Bloch & Schneider), Jolt-head Porgy. Pez de Pluma. Family _Sparidæ_. ] [Illustration: FIG. 283.—Little-head Porgy, _Calamus proridens_ Jordan & Gilbert. Key West. ]