page_title: Spottail pinfish
section_title: Taxonomy and naming
hierarchical_section_title: Spottail pinfish / Taxonomy and naming
context_page_description: The spottail pinfish is an ocean-going species of fish in the family Sparidae. It is also known as the Spottail seabream. Along with other members of their family, Spottail pinfish are occasionally eaten and considered by some to be a panfish.
context_section_description: The Spottail pinfish was described in 1878 by Tarleton Hoffman Bean, an ichthyologist who worked mainly on the Connecticut coast. He originally placed it in the genus Sargus, but it was later moved to Diplodus. Bean named the Spottail pinfish after John Edwards Holbrook, a zoologist who had died 7 years before.
caption: John Holbrook, for whom the Spottail pinfish was named .
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