Description

Also known as Bad Luck, Black Snapper, Caribbean Hamlet, Cod, Hamlet, Hind, Rockcod, Trout.

Found singly, close to the bottom, around hard and soft corals, of shallow reefs.
They feed on crustaceans and small fish.
Length - 15cm
Depth - 3-13m
Widespread Western Atlantic, Caribbean

Groupers are solitary carnivores that hunt near the bottom usually at dusk. Food is drawn into their mouths by a powerful suction when they open their overly large mouths and then swallowed whole.
Spawning is seasonal and controlled by the moons phase Ref: https://fishbase.mnhn.fr/summary/Hypoplectrus-nigricans.html