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| SCIENTIFIC
CLASSIFICATION |
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| COMMON
NAME: |
bluestriped grunt |
| KINGDOM: |
Animalia |
| PHYLUM: |
Chordata |
| CLASS: |
Osteichthyes |
| ORDER: |
Perciformes |
| FAMILY: |
Haemulidae
(some sources cite Pomadasyidae) |
| GENUS
SPECIES: |
Haemulon sciurus |
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| DESCRIPTION: |
Yellow tapered body with blue stripes along entire
length. Rear dorsal fin and caudal fin are darkly
colored. Interior of mouth is colored bright orange.
Centrally cleft (forked) caudal fin. |
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| SIZE: |
20.3-35.6 cm (8 - 14 in) avg; 46 cm (18.1 in) max
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| WEIGHT: |
750 g (1.7 lbs) max |
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| DIET: |
Bivalve mollusks, crustaceans, and smaller fish
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| INCUBATION: |
Spawning primarily occurs from late fall to early
spring |
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| SEXUAL
MATURITY: |
17-20 cm total body length |
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| RANGE: |
Western Atlantic: Florida and Gulf of Mexico to
Brazil |
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| HABITAT: |
0-30 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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