🦋 Family

Haemulidae

31 species · Animals

Animalia › Chordata › › Perciformes › Haemulidae

Anisotremus interruptus (Gill, 1862)

Anisotremus interruptus, the burrito grunt, is a reef-dwelling grunt fish found in the eastern Pacific Ocean that feeds at night on benthic invertebrates.

Pomadasys argenteus (Forsskål, 1775)

Pomadasys argenteus is a predatory marine fish found in the Indian and western Pacific Oceans that can grow up to 70 cm long.

Pomadasys kaakan (Cuvier, 1830)

Pomadasys kaakan is an Indo-Pacific fish species with distinct physical traits between juveniles and adults, that feeds on a range of small prey.

Pomadasys commersonnii (Lacepède, 1801)

Pomadasys commersonnii is a fish species found in the western Indian Ocean that lives in shallow coastal waters and estuaries.

Conodon nobilis (Linnaeus, 1758)

Conodon nobilis is a western Atlantic marine fish with a robust compressed body, that feeds nocturnally on small fish and crustaceans.

Xenocys jessiae Jordan & Bollman, 1890

Xenocys jessiae is an oviparous fish species endemic to the Galápagos Islands that forms dense schools feeding on plankton and small fish.

Haemulon chrysargyreum Günther, 1859

Haemulon chrysargyreum is a small western Atlantic grunt found on coral reefs and rocky coasts, caught for food and displayed in public aquariums.

Related Families

Labridae 155 species Pomacentridae 142 species Gobiidae 120 species Serranidae 103 species Blenniidae 86 species Chaetodontidae 82 species Percidae 67 species Carangidae 53 species

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