French Grunt
Haemulon flavolineatum
- Class
- Ray-finned fish
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 4,089
- Most observed in
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
Haemulon flavolineatum, the French grunt, banana grunt, gold laced grunt, open-mouthed grunt, redmouth grunt, or yellow grunt, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a grunt belonging to the family Haemulidae. It inhabits tropical through warm-temperate regions between the southern Caribbean and the southeast U.S., within the western Atlantic Ocean.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Haemulon flavolineatum”.