#2285 · 🐟 fish
French Grunt
🇳🇱 Roodbekje ·Haemulon flavolineatum
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what is it?
Haemulon flavolineatum , the French grunt , is a species of grunt native to the western Atlantic Ocean from South Carolina and Bermuda to Brazil as well as the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. The French grunt travels in schools among coral and rocky reefs where it occurs at depths of from 0 to 60 metres (0 to 197 ft). Their bodies are yellow with horizontal silver stripes running the length of, and diagonally-oriented stripes below the...
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 6,225 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest in 1823 (203 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- French Grunt
- Nederlands
- Roodbekje
- scientific name
- Haemulon flavolineatum
- class
- Actinopterygii
- order
- Acanthuriformes
- family
- Haemulidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 6,225
- GBIF records in NL
- 3
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1823 by Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Haemulidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 62600, Wikidata Q1450725, GBIF 2382521, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.