Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Haemulon maculicauda
Roncador esmeralda, Roncador soldadito, Spottail grunt
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Teleostei
Order
Eupercaria incertae sedis
Family
Haemulidae
Genus
Haemulon
Species
maculicauda
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Orthostoechus maculicauda Gill, 1862 (Horton et al., 2021).
Origin: Native
Distribution: Eastern Pacific: Baja California, Mexico to Colombia (Froese and Pauly, 2021).
- Froese, R. D. Pauly. Eds. (2021) FishBase World Wide Web electronic publication. www.fishbase.org,
- Grove, J.S. Long, D.J., Robertson, D.R. & Victor, B.C. (2022) List of Fishes of the Galapagos Archipelago, Ecuador. Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation, 39, 14–22.
- Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Haemulon maculicauda", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=24820. Accessed 3 April 2026.