scuppaugn.
/ˈskʌpɔːɡ/ U.S.
= scup n.2
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Sparidae (sea-breams) > [noun] > member of genus Pagrus or Chrysophrys (schnapper)
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1870 Putnam's Mag. 6 525 Porgy, Scup, and Scuppaug, names..in different sections of the Northern States.
1873 T. Gill Catal. Fishes East Coast N. Amer. 27 Stenotomus argyrops (Linn.) Gill.—Scup; scuppaug; porgy (New York).
1884 G. B. Goode in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 386 The Scup..is often known in New England as the ‘Scuppaug’.
1911 Rep. Comm. U.S. Bureau Fisheries 1908 315/2 Scup (Stenotomus chrysops)... Common local names are ‘scuppaug’, ‘paugy’, ‘porgy’, ‘pogy’ [etc.].
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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