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Haemulon bonariense Black grunt

Haemulon bonariense is commonly referred to as Black grunt. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for aquarium keeping. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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lexID:
15435 
AphiaID:
275722 
Scientific:
Haemulon bonariense 
German:
Gepunkteter Grunzer 
English:
Black Grunt 
Category:
Grunts 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopteri (Class) > Eupercaria incertae sedis (Order) > Haemulidae (Family) > Haemulon (Genus) > bonariense (Species) 
Initial determination:
Cuvier, 1830 
Occurrence:
Sint Eustatius and Saba, Aruba, Belize, Bonaire, Columbia, Cuba, Curacao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Florida, Grenada, Guatemala, Gulf of Mexico, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Lesser Antilles, Martinique, Panama, Puerto Rico, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, The Bahamas, the Cayman Islands, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, Uruguay, Venezuela 
Marine Zone:
Subtidal, sublittoral, infralittoral, deep zone of the oceans from the lower limit of the intertidal zone (intertidal) to the shelf edge at about 200 m water depth. neritic. 
Sea depth:
1 - 50 Meter 
Size:
up to 15.75" (40 cm) 
Temperature:
70.52 °F - 29,5 °F (21.4°C - 29,5°C) 
Food:
Carnivore, Crustaceans, Invertebrates, Mysis, Predatory, Schrimps, Snails, Worms, Zooplankton 
Difficulty:
Not suitable for aquarium keeping 
Offspring:
Not available as offspring 
Toxicity:
Toxic hazard unknown 
CITES:
Not evaluated 
Red List:
Least concern (LC)  
Related species at
Catalog of Life:
 
Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2022-12-15 18:16:17 

Info

Haemulon bonariense occurs in the sea over soft bottoms and shallow hard bottoms.

Adults:
The head and body of the grunt are silvery, with narrow, wavy, oblique, dark lines along the scale rows on the body.
The pectoral fins of the fish are transparent, the other fins are dark to dark brown.
A black spot can be seen under the lower corner of the preopercle.

Juveniles: In juveniles two long stripes and a short stripe above the eye are clearly visible.
A black spot with a broad anterior margin is visible on the base of the caudal fin.

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Synonym: Haemulon bonaeriense Cuvier, 1830

External links

  1. FishBase (multi). Abgerufen am 13.12.2022.
  2. iNaturalist Seite von Kent Miller (en). Abgerufen am 13.12.2022.
  3. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (multi). Abgerufen am 13.12.2022.
  4. Shorefishes of the Greater Caribbean online information system (multi). Abgerufen am 13.12.2022.
  5. World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) (en). Abgerufen am 13.12.2022.

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Foto: Layton, Florida, USA

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