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Haemulidae
Sign in to saveHaemulidae is a family of fishes in the order Acanthuriformes known commonly as grunts. It is made up of the two subfamilies Haemulinae (grunts) and Plectorhynchinae (sweetlips), which contain about 133 species in 19 genera around the world. These fishes are commonly found in tropical, subtropical, and warm temperate regions, inhabiting marine, brackish, and sometimes fresh waters.
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Haemulidae is a family of fish within the order Perciformes, class Teleostei, and phylum Chordata. The taxon was established by Gill in 1885 and is currently accepted by the World Register of Marine Species. It is also known by the synonym Inermiidae. Members of this family are commonly referred to as grunts and inhabit marine, brackish, and freshwater environments.
Records for Haemulidae are held by institutions including SDNHM and ECOSUR, with occurrences documented in the United States and Mexico. The family has been the subject of 167 other encyclopedia articles.
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Species
grunts
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderPerciformes
- FamilyHaemulidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 770
- With media
- 6
- Family
- Haemulidae
- Collections
- SDNHM, ECOSUR
- Recorded in
- United States, Mexico
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Subfamilies and genera
- See also
- Notes
- References
Haemulidae is a family of fishes in the order Acanthuriformes known commonly as grunts. It is made up of the two subfamilies Haemulinae (grunts) and Plectorhynchinae (sweetlips), which contain about 133 species in 19 genera around the world. These fishes are commonly found in tropical, subtropical, and warm temperate regions, inhabiting marine, brackish, and sometimes fresh waters.
The family shows many feeding adaptations from bottom-feeding predation to water-column planktivory and is named for the ability of Haemulinae to produce sounds by grinding their pharyngeal teeth. Some species engage in mutualistic relationships with cleaner gobies of the genus Elacatinus, allowing them to feed on ectoparasites on their bodies.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Haemulidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.