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Haemulon carbonarium Poey, 1860

Description

Dorsal spines (total): 12; Dorsal soft rays (total): 15 - 16; Anal spines: 3; Anal soft rays: 8. Pale gray above; belly darker gray. Yellow stripes along side; bronze-yellow stripes and spots on head (Ref. 26938). Snout and fins primarily brownish (Ref. 13442).

Common Names

  • Sort gryntefisk , Danish , Denmark
  • Black grunt , English , USA
  • Black grunt , English , Bermuda
  • Black-tail grunt , English , Barbados
  • Blacktail , English , Jamaica
  • Blacktail grunt , English , Bermuda
  • Blacktail grunt , English , USA
  • Caesar grunt , English , Bahamas
  • Caesar grunt , English , USA
  • Caesar grunt , English , Cuba
  • Caesar grunt , English , Belize
  • Caesar grunt , English , Global
  • Caesar grunt , English , Jamaica
  • Caesar grunt , English , Puerto Rico
  • Gorète , English , Guadeloupe
  • Grunt , English , Neth Antilles
  • Redmouth grunt , English , Trinidad Tobago
  • Crocro , French , Trinidad Tobago
  • Gorette charbonnier , French , France
  • Gorette charbonnier , French , Global
  • Gueule rouge , French , Guadeloupe
  • Gueule rouge , French , Trinidad Tobago
  • 凯撤仿石鲈 , Mandarin Chinese , China
  • 凱撤仿石鱸 , Mandarin Chinese , China
  • Cocoroca , Portuguese (Brazilianism) , Brazil
  • Xira , Portuguese (Tupi) , Brazil
  • Bocacolorá , Spanish , Colombia
  • Bocayate , Spanish , Dominican Rp
  • Corocoro de piedra , Spanish , Venezuela
  • Ronco carbonero , Spanish , Colombia
  • Ronco carbonero , Spanish , Cuba
  • Ronco carbonero , Spanish , Nicaragua
  • Ronco carbonero , Spanish , Spain
  • Ronco carbonero , Spanish , Mexico

    • Taxonomic Hierarchy

    Kingdom: Animalia

    Phylum: Chordata

    Class: Teleostei

    Order: Eupercaria/misc

    Family: Haemulidae

    Genus: Haemulon

    Species: Haemulon carbonarium Poey, 1860

    Climate Zone

  • Subtropical

    • Location

  • Western Atlantic: southern Florida (USA), Bahamas, and Yucatan, Mexico to Brazil; including the Gulf of Mexico and the entire Caribbean Sea (Ref. 9626).

    • Biology

    Occurs in clear rocky or coral reefs (Ref. 5217) and mangroves (Ref. 26340). Often forming schools (Ref. 3798). Nocturnal feeder on crabs, gastropods, starfish and annelid worms (Ref. 5521). Marketed fresh (Ref. 3798).

    Habitat

    associated