Haemulidae

striped piggy

Pomadasys stridens

Twenty Centimeters Haemulid Fish of the Red Sea

• Tropical
• Regional distribution
• Marine fish
• Indian Ocean
• Africa
• South Asia
• Fusiform
• Medium
• Tropical fish

Pomadasys stridens, the striped piggy or lined piggy, is a grunt from the western Indian Ocean and is one of a group of Indo-Pacific marine species which have colonised the Mediterranean Sea through the Suez Canal from the Red Sea, a process known as Lessepsian migration.