Galapagos Species Database

The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.

Haemulon maculicauda (Gill, 1862)

Roncador esmeralda, Roncador soldadito, Spottail grunt

Taxonomy

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

Distribution: Eastern Pacific: Baja California, Mexico to Colombia (Froese and Pauly, 2021).

References

  • 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.