Species: Paranisotremus moricandi, Brownstripe grunt, the Burro
Paranisotremus moricandi (Ranzani, 1842)
Burro
Body deep, compressed, back high; head short, blunt; rear margin of bone under eye concealed by scales; mouth small, low, ~horizontal, lips fleshy; teeth in bands on jaws, outer ones larger, conical, none on center roof of mouth; a pair of conspicuous pores plus a central groove under the chin; 15-16 lower gill rakers; preopercle finely serrated; dorsal continuous but deeply notched, 4th spine longest, XII, 15-17; anal with III strong spines, 2nd very large, 9 soft rays; tail forked; scales moderate to large, rough, over entire body and head except front of snout, lips and chin, none on membranes between dorsal and anal soft rays; lateral-line scales 56-58; 7-8 scale rows between lateral line and base of first dorsal spine.
Pale yellowish tan; head blackish, with a broad silvery bar behind eye, 2 silvery stripes under eye, a black spot at top rear corner of operculum; body with 4-6 blackish stripes, bordered above and below by white stripes; a black spot surrounded by white on center of base of tail fin, 2 black spots on upper tail base; pelvics black, other fins yellowish; inside mouth and throat red.
Size: to 18 cm.
Habitat: hard bottoms in turbid waters.
Depth: 0-12 m.
SW Caribbean to Brazil.
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- Salinity
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- Marine Only
- Marine
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore
- Inshore Only
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom
- Habitat
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- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- Rocks
- Reef and soft bottom
- Corals
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- FishBase Habitat
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- Reef Associated
- Feeding Group
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- Data
- Carnivore
- Diet
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- Data
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Mobile benthic worms
- Mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves
- Egg Type
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- Data
- Pelagic
- Pelagic larva
- Global Endemism
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- Greater Caribbean non-endemic
- West Atlantic Endemic
- All species.
- Regional Endemism
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- Also in Brazil
- Continent + Island (s)
- Island (s)
- Continent
- GC non-endemic
- Extends South of GC
- All species..
- Continental primarily
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Equatorial (0-10N, Costa Rica / Venezuela)
- IUCN Red List
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- Listed
- Least concern
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 18
- Depth Range Min
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- 0
- Depth Range Max
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- 12
