''Haemulopsis'' is a

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

of marine

ray-finned fish Actinopterygii (; ), members of which are known as ray-finned fish or actinopterygians, is a class of bony fish that comprise over 50% of living vertebrate species. They are so called because of their lightly built fins made of webbings of sk ...

, grunts belonging to the

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Haemulidae Haemulidae is a family (biology), family of fishes in the order (biology), order Perciformes known commonly as grunts. It is made up of the two subfamily, subfamilies Haemulinae (grunts) and Plectorhynchinae (sweetlips), which contain about 133 ...

. They are native to the western Atlantic Ocean and, mainly, to the eastern

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Species

The currently recognized species in this genus are: * '' Haemulopsis axillaris'' Steindachner, 1869) (yellowstripe grunt) * '' Haemulopsis corvinaeformis'' (Steindachner, 1868) (roughneck grunt) * '' Haemulopsis elongatus'' (Steindachner, 1879) (elongated grunt) * '' Haemulopsis leuciscus'' ( Günther, 1864) (raucous grunt) * '' Haemulopsis nitidus'' (Steindachner, 1869) (shining grunt) All of these apart from ''H. corvinaeformis'', which is found in the western Atlantic Ocean, are found in the eastern Pacific Ocean.

References

Haemulinae {{Haemulidae-stub