Species: Haemulopsis axillaris, Axil grunt, Yellow-stripe grunt
Haemulopsis axillaris (Steindachner, 1869)
Yellow-stripe grunt, Axil grunt
Moderately elongate, oval body; wide between eyes; mouth small, slightly oblique, opens at front; chin with 2 pairs of pores, rear pair in a deep hole; preopercle finely serrated; lower gill rakers 14-17; dorsal fin XII, 14-15, continuous, with notch between spiny and soft parts; anal rays III, 8, 2nd spine shorter than the 3rd; pectoral fins reaching level of anus; body scales without small accessory scales; soft dorsal and anal with small scales between rays as well as a scaly sheath on base; lateral-line scales 49-54.
Silvery with upper edge of gill opening narrowly black, sometimes a dark smudge behind that corner; a triangular black spot in axil of pectoral fin; narrow brown stripes corresponding with scale rows often present on sides; 3-4 bars often evident on side; inside mouth not red.
Size: reaches 30 cm.
Habitat: coastal soft bottoms.
Depth: 0-60 m.
Southern Baja and the lower 2/3 of the Gulf of California to Peru.
High Resolution Map Download
- Salinity
-
- Brackish
- Freshwater
- Marine
- Inshore/Offshore
-
- Inshore
- Inshore Only
- Water Column Position
-
- Bottom + water column
- Near Bottom
- Bottom
- Habitat
-
- Sand & gravel
- Soft bottom (mud/sand/gravel/beach/estuary/mangrove/seagrass)
- Beach
- Soft bottom only
- Estuary
- Water column
- Freshwater
- Mud
- FishBase Habitat
-
- Demersal
- Feeding Group
-
- Carnivore
- No Data
- Diet
-
- Octopus/squid/cuttlefish
- Mobile benthic gastropods/bivalves
- Mobile benthic worms
- No Data
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Egg Type
-
- No data
- Pelagic larva
- Pelagic
- Global Endemism
-
- All species
- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) endemic
- East Pacific endemic
- Regional Endemism
-
- All species
- Continental TEP endemic
- TEP endemic
- Continent
- Continent only
- 3 provinces (Cortez + Mexican + Panamic) endemic
- Residency
-
- Resident
- Climate Zone
-
- 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
-
- Least concern
- Listed
- CITES
-
- Not listed
- Length Max
-
- 30
- Depth Range Min
-
- 0
- Depth Range Max
-
- 60
