Species: Haemulon album, Margate grunt
iris white
Haemulon album Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1830
Margate grunt
Body oblong, compressed; body depth ~39% of SL; head deep, blunt, its upper profile convex on nape then straight to mouth; eye small; rear margin of bone under eye concealed by scales; mouth small to moderate, lips not fleshy; underside of chin with 2 large pores and a central groove; preoperculum finely serrated, without spines; gill rakers 21-23; dorsal fin continuous, with small to moderate notch in middle, XII, 16-17; anal rays III, 7-8, 2nd and 3rd spines similar; tail forked; soft dorsal and anal densely scaled nearly to the edge of the fin; scales rough; scales over entire body and head except front of snout, lips and chin; pectoral fin scaled on base only; lateral-line scales 49-52; scale rows below lateral line oblique to body axis.
Pearly grey to pale olive-green; iris white; inside mouth red; membranes of spiny dorsal white; soft dorsal, anal and tail dusky; black blotch under free margin of preopercle faint or absent.
Size: attains 79 cm.
Habitat: on reefs, hard bottom and nearby soft bottoms.
Depth: 1-60 m.
North Carolina to Brazil.
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- Salinity
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- Marine
- Marine Only
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore Only
- Inshore
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom
- Habitat
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- Rocks
- Reef and soft bottom
- Corals
- Sand & gravel
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- FishBase Habitat
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- Reef Associated
- Feeding Group
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- Data
- Carnivore
- Diet
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- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves
- Sea-stars/cucumbers/urchins
- Data
- Sessile worms
- Bony fishes
- Mobile benthic worms
- Egg Type
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- Pelagic larva
- Data
- Pelagic
- Global Endemism
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- All species.
- West Atlantic Endemic
- Greater Caribbean non-endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- Extends South of GC
- All species..
- GC non-endemic
- Also in Brazil
- Continent + Island (s)
- Continent
- Island (s)
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Subtropical (23-35N, Florida / Carolinas / Bermuda)
- Equatorial (0-10N, Costa Rica / Venezuela)
- Tropical (10-23N, Nicaragua / Cuba)
- IUCN Red List
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- Listed
- Data deficient
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Depth Range Max
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- 60
- Depth Range Min
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- 1
- Length Max
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- 79
