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| SCIENTIFIC
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| COMMON
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French
grunt |
| KINGDOM: |
Animalia |
| PHYLUM: |
Chordata |
| CLASS: |
Osteichthyes |
| ORDER: |
Perciformes |
| FAMILY: |
Haemulidae (some sources cite Pomadasyidae) |
| GENUS
SPECIES: |
Haemulon flavolineatum |
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| DESCRIPTION: |
Yellow tapered body with silver stripes along entire
length. Stripes below lateral line are diagonally
oriented. All fins are solid yellow in color. Centrally
cleft (forked) caudal fin. Juvenile form exhibits
white body with thick black stripes, thin yellow
stripes, black blotch at base of caudal peduncle,
and yellow edge to dorsal, ventral, anal, and caudal
fins. Yellow stripes below lateral line are diagonally
oriented. Juvenile form is similar in appearance
to Haemulon melanurum and Haemulon aurolineatum. |
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| SIZE: |
15.2-25.4 cm (6-10 in) avg; 30.5 cm (12 in) max
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| DIET: |
Primarily small crustaceans |
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| SEXUAL
MATURITY: |
16 cm total body length |
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| RANGE: |
Western Atlantic: Bermuda and South Carolina to
Gulf of Mexico and Brazil |
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| HABITAT: |
0-60 meters in tropical & sub-tropical coastal
marine waters |
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| POPULATION: |
GLOBAL |
No
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| STATUS: |
IUCN |
Not listed |
| CITES |
Not
listed |
| USFWS |
Not
listed |
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| Bond,
Carl E. Biology of Fishes - Second Edition.
Saunders College Publishing, 1996. |
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Humann, Paul. Reef Fish Identification - Florida,
Caribbean, Bahamas. New World Publications,
Inc., 1992. |
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www.fishbase.org
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