#2318 · 🐟 fish
Bluestriped Grunt
🇳🇱 Neertje ·Haemulon sciurus
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what is it?
The blue striped grunt ( Haemulon sciurus ), also bluestriped grunt , is a subtropical species of grunt native to the western Atlantic Ocean. It was described by the English naturalist George Shaw in 1803.
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.
- 4,852 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by George Shaw in 1803 (223 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Bluestriped Grunt
- Nederlands
- Neertje
- scientific name
- Haemulon sciurus
- class
- Actinopterygii
- order
- Acanthuriformes
- family
- Haemulidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 4,852
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1803 by George Shaw
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Haemulidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 49262, Wikidata Q1948330, GBIF 2382543, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.