Haemulopsis nitida (Steindachner 1869)
- Dataset
- Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Actinopterygii
- order
- Perciformes
- family
- Haemulidae
- genus
- Haemulopsis
- species
- Haemulopsis nitida
description
Shining Grunt, Shortspine Grunt, or Silver Grunt. To 30 cm (11.8 in) TL (McKay and Schneider in Fischer et al. 1995). Bahía San Juanico (26 ° 13 ’ N, 112 ° 28 ’ W) (Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California), southern Baja California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) to Peru (Velasco and Thiel 2002), including Gulf of California (McKay and Schneider in Fischer et al. 1995). Depth: 0 – 50 m (164 ft) (min.: Robertson and Allen 2002; max.: Velasco and Thiel 2002). Frequently seen as Haemulopsis nitidus (Fricke et al. 2020).