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Caesar Grunt
Sep 12, 2017. Spotting in dive site Angel City, Bonaire.
The caesar grunt is the fish with the black tail and clearer silvery body with thinner yellow stripes. On top of him there is a bluestriped grunt and below, closer to the coral crevice a french grunt and a couple of blackbar soldierfishes.
"Haemulon carbonarium", the Caesar grunt, is a species of grunt native to the western Atlantic Ocean from Florida to Brazil and also in the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico. It inhabits coral or rock reefs and mangrove swamps at depths of from 3 to 25 metres. This species can reach a length of 36 centimetres TL though most do not exceed 20 centimetres. This species is of minor importance to local commercial fisheries and is also popular in public aquariums.
