Haemulon plumierii Boar Grunt, Common Grunt, Grey Grunt, Grunt, Jolle Cocoon, Redmouth Grunt, White Grunt, White Snapper

Haemulon plumierii is commonly referred to as Boar Grunt, Common Grunt, Grey Grunt, Grunt, Jolle Cocoon, Redmouth Grunt, White Grunt, White Snapper. Difficulty in the aquarium: suitable for large display tanks (public aquarium or zoo) only. Toxicity: toxic.

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lexID:: 3486
AphiaID:: 158808

Scientific:: Haemulon plumierii
German:: Weißer Grunzer
English:: Boar Grunt, Common Grunt, Grey Grunt, Grunt, Jolle Cocoon, Redmouth Grunt, White Grunt, White Snapper

Category:: Snappers

Family tree:: Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopteri (Class) > Eupercaria incertae sedis (Order) > Haemulidae (Family) > Haemulon (Genus) > plumierii (Species)
Initial determination:: (Lacepède, ), 1801

Occurrence:: Guadeloupe, Barbados, Suriname, Sint Eustatius and Saba, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Belize, Bermuda, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Central Atlantic, Columbia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Curacao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, French Guiana, Grenada, Guatemala, Gulf of Mexico, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin / Sint Maarten, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, The Bahamas, the Cayman Islands, the Netherlands Antilles, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, USA, Venezuela, Virgin Islands, U.S., West-Atlantic Ocean
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:: 3 - 40 Meter
Habitats:: Coral reefs, Patch Reefs, Reef-associated, Sandy sea floors, Seawater, Sea water
Size:: up to 20.87" (53 cm)
Weight:: 4.4 kg
Temperature:: 74.12 °F - 82.4 °F (23.4°C - 28°C)
Food:: Carnivore, Clams, Crustaceans, Fish (little fishes), Invertebrates, Predatory, Snails
Difficulty:: suitable for large display tanks (public aquarium or zoo) only
Offspring:: Not available as offspring
Toxicity:: toxic

CITES:

Not evaluated

Red List:

Least concern (LC)

Related species at Catalog of Life:

Author:: Meerwasser-Lexikon Team
Publisher:: Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:: 2011-01-03 01:19:00
Last edit:: 2024-10-28 16:08:52

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Haemulon plumierii (Lacepède, 1801)

Haemulon plumieri is a saltwater fish that is found offshore in the Gulf Of Mexico as well as the Caribbean Sea, south to Brazil. These fish go by a few different names including, Black Grunt, Boar Grunt, White Snapper, Flannelmouth Grunt,

Synonymised names
Haemulon plumieri (Lacepède, 1801) · unaccepted
Labrus plumierii Lacepède, 1801 · unaccepted