Species: Haemulon boschmae, Bronzestripe grunt
narrow stripes along scale rows (oblique above, horizontal below); C base - dark spot
juv: middle & top stripes join under D, C base - double spot
Haemulon boschmae (Metzelaar, 1919)
Bronzestripe grunt
Body oblong, moderately elongate, compressed; body depth 26-30% of SL; head blunt, its upper profile convex; 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 30-36; dorsal fin continuous, with small to moderate notch in middle, XIII-XIV, 11-15; anal rays III, 7-9, 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 50-52; scale rows below lateral line mostly horizontal to body axis.
Adult: silvery to silvery grey; sides with narrow brownish stripes along scale rows, horizontal above lateral line, oblique below front part of line; an elongate black spot at base of caudal fin; fins grey; inside mouth white. Juvenile: 3 brownish-orange stripes: one along upper head and back to end of dorsal fin base, one above eye back along lateral line converging with midlateral stripe under soft dorsal; mid-lateral stripe joins a double black spot at base of tail fin.
Size: attains 20 cm.
Habitat: forms schools above the bottom in sandy areas adjacent to reefs.
Depth: 1-90 m.
Two isolated populations; one in the southern Gulf of Mexico, the other from Colombia to Guyana.
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- Salinity
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- Marine Only
- Marine
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore Only
- Inshore
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom
- Near Bottom
- Bottom + water column
- Habitat
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- Reef and soft bottom
- Sand & gravel
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Water column
- 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
- Planktivore
- Diet
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- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves
- Zooplankton
- Data
- Egg Type
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- Pelagic
- Pelagic larva
- Data
- Global Endemism
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- Greater Caribbean non-endemic
- All species.
- West Atlantic Endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- Extends South of GC
- Continental primarily
- Continent
- Island (s)
- All species..
- Continent + Island (s)
- GC non-endemic
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Equatorial (0-10N, Costa Rica / Venezuela)
- Tropical (10-23N, Nicaragua / Cuba)
- IUCN Red List
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- Listed
- Least concern
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 20
- Depth Range Min
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- 1
- Depth Range Max
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- 90
