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.

Class: Teleosts
Order: Surgeonfishes and Allies
Family: Haemulidae
Genus: Pomadasys
Maximum length: 55 cm
Body shape: fusiform
Distribution: Southeast Atlantic: north of Swakopmund, Namibia (Ref. 11228 ). Indian Ocean: east coast of Africa and Madagascar to Arabia, India and the Malay Peninsula.
Conservation status: LCLeast Concern

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