Species: Haemulon steindachneri, Chere-chere grunt, Latin grunt
Haemulon steindachneri (Jordan & Gilbert, 1882)
Latin grunt, Chere-chere grunt
Body oblong, compressed; mouth short, ~ horizontal, opens well below eye-level, lips not fleshy; underside of chin with 2 large pores, 2 pores in a deep hole, and a central groove; gill rakers 19-25 (usually 23); preoperculum finely serrated, without spines; dorsal continuous, with small to moderate notch in middle, XI-XII, 15-17 (usually XII, 16); anal rays III, 8- 10 (usually 9); tail forked; soft dorsal and anal densely scaled nearly to the edge of the fin; lateral-line scales 49-53; scales above the lateral line in lines oblique to body axis; 7-9 scale rows between lateral line and 1st dorsal spine.
Silvery to silvery grey; sides with narrow oblique brownish bars corresponding with scale rows; a prominent black spot at base of caudal fin; fins yellowish; juveniles with brownish-orange midlateral stripe with pearly-white upper and lower border converging with black spot at base of tail fin, also 2-3 diffuse brownish-orange stripes on back.
Size: attains 30 cm.
Habitat: forms schools in sandy areas adjacent to reefs; juveniles also found in mangroves.
Depth: 1-75 m.
Western Atlantic and eastern Pacific; southern Baja and the Gulf of California to Peru; strays to Cocos Is.
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- Salinity
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- Marine
- Brackish
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore
- Inshore Only
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom + water column
- Near Bottom
- Bottom
- Habitat
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- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Reef and soft bottom
- Rocks
- Mangrove
- Estuary
- Submerged vegetation
- Water column
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Sand & gravel
- FishBase Habitat
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- Demersal
- Feeding Group
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- No Data
- Carnivore
- Planktivore
- Diet
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- Mobile benthic worms
- Zooplankton
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Octopus/squid/cuttlefish
- Bony fishes
- Data
- Mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves
- Egg Type
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- Pelagic larva
- Pelagic
- No data
- Global Endemism
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- TEP non-endemic
- New world (East Pacific + West Atlantic)
- All species
- Transisthmian (East Pacific + Atlantic of Central America)
- East Pacific + Atlantic (East +/or West)
- Regional Endemism
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- Island (s)
- Continent
- Eastern Pacific non-endemic
- All species
- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) non-endemic
- Continent + Island (s)
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Northern Subtropical (Cortez Province + Sinaloan Gap)
- Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo)
- Northern Tropical (Mexican Province to Nicaragua + Revillagigedos)
- North Temperate (Californian Province &/or Northern Gulf of California)
- South Temperate (Peruvian Province )
- IUCN Red List
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- Least concern
- Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 30
- Depth Range Min
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- 1
- Depth Range Max
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- 75
