Haemulopsis

<i>Haemulopsis</i>

Haemulopsis

Genus of fishes

Haemulopsis is a genus of marine ray-finned fish, grunts belonging to the family Haemulidae. They are native to the western Atlantic Ocean and, mainly, to the eastern Pacific Ocean.[2]

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Species

The currently recognized species in this genus are:[2]

  • Haemulopsis axillaris Steindachner, 1869) (yellowstripe grunt)
  • Haemulopsis corvinaeformis (Steindachner, 1868) (roughneck grunt)
  • Haemulopsis elongatus (Steindachner, 1879) (elongated grunt)
  • Haemulopsis leuciscus (Günther, 1864) (raucous grunt)
  • Haemulopsis nitidus (Steindachner, 1869) (shining grunt)

All of these apart from H. corvinaeformis, which is found in the western Atlantic Ocean, are found in the eastern Pacific Ocean.[3]

References

  1. [1]
    Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Haemulidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 1 April 2021.
  2. [2]
    Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). Species of Haemulopsis in FishBase. December 2019 version.
  3. [3]
    Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Haemulopsis". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 1 April 2021.


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