Haemulidae

olive grunt

Pomadasys olivaceus

Fifty Five Centimeters Haemulid Fish of the Indian Ocean

• Green
• Tropical
• Regional distribution
• Atlantic Ocean
• Indian Ocean
• Africa
• South Asia
• Fusiform
• Large
• Tropical fish

Pomadasys olivaceus, commonly named piggy, or pinky is a species of marine fish in the family Haemulidae, the grunts, first described by Francis Day in 1875 as Pristipoma olivaceum in Day, F. (1875), The fishes of India; being a natural history of the fishes known to inhabit the seas and fresh waters of India, Burma, and Ceylon. London. Part 1.