Yellowstripe Grunt Photos and Species Information for Fish Caught in Mexico
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Yellowstripe Grunt
Ronco callana
(Haemulopsis axillaris)
Fish Identification Photos: Yellowstripe Grunt, Haemulopsis axillaris: The Yellowstripe Grunt is characterized by its streamlined shape, overall silver appearance, strong lateral line, and faint brownish stripes running from front to back.
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The Yellowstripe Grunt is quite similar in appearance to the Sharpnose Grunt, the Silver Grunt and the White Grunt, which also live in similar locations.
In Mexico, the Yellowstripe Grunt is found on the Pacific Coast of the Baja California peninsula north to about Laguna San Ignacio, north to at least Loreto on Baja's Sea of Cortez coast, and on the mainland south to Guatemala.
It grows to one foot in length, but the half-foot models are more common. It is found in sandy mud flats in the first 50 feet of the water column.
The Yellowstripe Grunt is simply too small and too rare to be deemed of any significant food value.
The Yellowstripe Grunt is one of several similar grunts, of the Haemulidae or Grunt Family, which are hard to differentiate.
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Yellowstripe Grunt, Haemulopsis axillaris: Shows up when one purchases a “scoop of bait.” Caught in the surf zone, La Playita, San Jose del Cabo, Baja California Sur, Mexico, during late December 2003, with a water temperature of 76 degrees, early morning in 5 to 10-foot deep water, utilizing a net cast by panguero bait salesmen. Size approximately 5 inches. Virtually an unknown species to locals and due to its small size deemed to be of no significant food value.
Yellowstripe Grunt, Haemulopsis axillaris: Collected in the surf zone, La Playita, San Jose del Cabo, Baja California Sur, Mexico, during March 2006, with a water temperature of 72 degrees, early morning, in 5 to 10-foot deep water, utilizing a net cast by panguero bait salesmen. Size approximately 5 inches. Picture illustrates difficulties of fish identification. Note the black tail, the black line running through both dorsal fins and that the first three dorsal rays have been shortened for an unknown reason. Fish identification courtesy of Dr. Ross Robertson, Smithsonian Institute, Panama. Description and photo courtesy of John Snow. |
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