English: Grunts.
Genera: 19; 133 species.
Region: worldwide.
Habitat: tropical fresh, brackish, and salt waters.
ZoologyFish; Haemulinae can produce sound by grinding their teeth.
Ecology: mutualistic relationship with gobies cleaning ectoparasites on their bodies.
Food: bottom-feeding predators.
SubfamiliesHaemulinae: Grunters.
Plectorhynchinae: Sweetlips.