Tomtate

  
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This is a Grunt called Tomtate about 8 inches.  Photo by .
Location , Key Largo in about 30 feet water.
Haemulon aurolineatum 

Features: 1.Prominent yellow to bronze stripe runs from snout through eye to base of tail; 2. fins pale; 3. Black spot on base of tail (not always present)
Description:
Notes: No personal pictures at this time (2008)

Audubon Field Guide; page 509; plate 219;
Reef Fish ID, 3rd edition; page 96-97; plates 97;
Size: 5-8 inches; max 10 inches;
Depth: 5-65 feet;

 
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Rod Bigelow
Box 13  Chazy Lake
Dannemora, N.Y. 12929
< rodbigelow@netzero.net > 

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