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French grunt

Haemulon flavolineatum

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Description:

Photo take at -45 ft in a Caribbean reef.small to big schools of grunts stay together near the reef as protection. Their bodies are yellow with horizontal silver stripes running the length of the body and diagonally-oriented stripes below the lateral line of the body. All of the fins are yellow.
About 20 cm long.

Habitat:

Found from Florida all the Caribbean sea to north Brazil.

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French grunt

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PublishedMarch 18, 2012

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