Dry Tortugas Fish Identification
White Grunt
Family Haemulidae, GRUNTS
Haemulon plumieri
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Description: body color light bluish-gray, head with horizontal blue stripes, white underbelly; black blotch on preopercle; margin of each scale bronze; large bright orange mouth; scales above lateral line larger than scales below lateral line.
Similar Fish: other grunts.
Where found: from shore to the outer reef edge or on hard bottom to 115 feet most abundant in water less than 80 feet deep
Size: most catches 1.5 pounds (15 inches).
Florida Record: n/a.