Gray Grunt; Striped Grunt 



Colour in life, pearly white, olivaceous above and on sides, some- 

 what bluish below; edges of scales above darker; small whitish spots 

 on centres of scales between nape and pectoral; a brownish streak 

 from snout, following curve of back and ending at last soft ray of 

 dorsal; another from forehead above eye, curving upward across 

 side, then downward, and under last dorsal rays joining a broader, 

 more distinct dark band which runs straight from snout through eye 

 and along middle of side to base of caudal; belly and lower part of 

 side with 4 or 5 rows of small pearly spots; fins all olivaceous, 

 bluish, the soft dorsal and caudal darker olivaceous. 



Gray Grunt; Striped Grunt 



Hcemulon macrostoinum Giinther 



This grunt is found from Indian River and Clearwater Harbor, 

 Florida, southward to Jamaica and St. Thomas, but does not appear 

 very common anywhere. Not many were seen in Porto Rico, where 

 it is known as corocoro. It reaches a foot or more in length and is a 

 good food-fish. 



Colour in life, body dirty silvery with about 9 dark longitudinal 

 streaks, plainest in the young; a median stripe from snout to dorsal 

 fin; first and second lateral stripes from above eye to posterior end of 

 soft dorsal; third from upper rim of orbit to vertical of posterior end 



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