Haemulon flavolineatum

French Grunt ( Haemulon flavolineatum )

The French grunts ( Haemulon flavolineatum ), also called Yellow Grunzerfisch, is a fish of the family of sweetlips and grunts ( Haemulidae ).

Features

He has grown up to 30 cm (male). Their bright yellow stripes are slightly diagonal, which makes the animals readily distinguishable from those related with them blue stripe grunts.

Dissemination

French grunts are common in the Western Atlantic, from the coast of South Carolina to the coast of Brazil to Bermuda and the West Indies. There, they find themselves in water depths up to 60 meters in rocky and coral reefs.

Way of life

The French grunts usually occurs in large schools. He stays under rock ledges or coral Acropora palmata the nature, young animals are often found in seagrass beds. The animals feed mainly on small crustaceans. The marine isopod gnathia marleyi is an ectoparasite of the fish.