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Spot-tail Grunt

Haemulon maculicauda

Also known as: Scaled-fin Grunt, Sweetlips

LCLeast ConcernIUCN Red List, 2010
Adult
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Overview

Found in large schools during the day, dispersing at night, foraging for food, over open, sandy, coastal reefs.
They feed nocturnally on small fish and molluscs.
Juveniles found over seagrass beds.

In some areas of the world 'Grunts' are better known as 'Sweetlips' distinguished from other species by their very large rubbery lips.
'Grunts'because they "grunt," the grunting sound is produced by their flat teeth plates rubbing together and this is amplified by their air bladders.
Found either singly or in schools hovering or motionless over the reef during the day, becoming nocturnal predators.

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Habitat & where to find it

  • Range · Eastern Pacific
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Found in large schools during the day, dispersing at night, foraging for food, over open, sandy, coastal reefs.

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    Taxonomy

    1. kingdomAnimalia
    2. phylumChordata
    3. classTeleostei
    4. orderEupercaria incertae sedis
    5. familyHaemulidae
    6. genusHaemulon
    7. speciesHaemulon maculicauda (Gill, 1862)

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    More in the family

    Grunts (Haemulidae)