Haemulon album
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Haemulidae |
| Genus: | Haemulon |
| Species: | H. album
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| Haemulon album Cuvier, 1830
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Haemulon album, the white margate, grey grunt, grunt, Margaret fish, Margaret grunt, margate, margate fish, ronco blanco, viuda, white grunt, white pogret, or yellow grunt is a species of ray-finned fish, a large grunt belonging to the family Haemulidae. It is native to the western Atlantic Ocean.
Description
H. album has a high-backed,
The white margate varies in colour from greyish silver to light olive green,[5] although this colour is usually restricted to the back. The scales on the upper part of the body have dark spots.[2] The soft-rayed part of the dorsal fin and the caudal fin are dark grey, while the other fins are pale. An indistinct dark blotch may occur on the gill covers.[3] The lips and shout have a yellow hue and the inside of the mouth is orange.[2] They have a white iris too.[5] The juveniles have a bluish colour marked with dark stripes ventrally.[2] Subadults may also have some blackish colouration on their backs between the base of the dorsal fin and the tail.[4]
Distribution
H. album is found in the western Atlantic Ocean. The northern limit of its range is in Bermuda and eastern Florida, through the Bahamas, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean Sea. It is found along the coast of Central America from Quintana Roo to islands and cays off Nicaragua. This species has also been confirmed in the waters around the Brazilian oceanic islands of Fernando de Noronha and Atol das Rocas, although it is absent from the mainland Brazilian coast.[1]
Habitat and biology
H. album is found at depths between 2 and 60 m (6 ft 7 in and 196 ft 10 in) in clear, tropical waters around coral reefs, rocky areas, shipwrecks, and beds of
They are typically encountered as pairs or large schools. They are nocturnal feeders, their diet consisting mainly ofSystematics
H. album was first formally
Uses
H. album is a quarry for commercial fisheries in all of the area of its occurrence. It is caught using traps, hook-and-line, and gill nets. No data on the catch are collected. The flesh is sold fresh and is branded as “silver snapper” in some markets.[9]
References
- ^ . Retrieved 19 November 2021.
- ^ a b c d e f "Margate". mexican-Fish.com. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
- ^ a b c "Species: Haemulon album, Margate grunt". Shorefishes of the Greater Caribbean online information. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
- ^ a b c d Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2019). "Haenulon album" in FishBase. December 2019 version.
- ^ a b "White Margate". Antigua’s Marine Life. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
- ^ "White Margate (Haemulon album)". What’s That Fish. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Haemulon". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara, eds. (5 January 2021). "Order LUTJANIFORMES: Families HAEMULIDAE and LUTJANIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
- FAOof the U.N., Rome. pp. 1522–1550.
External links
- Photos of Haemulon album on Sealife Collection