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Butter hamlet
Photo: [Photographs CJE & AME] Robertson DR, Pérez-España H, Domínguez-Domínguez O, Estapé CJ, Estapé AM (2019) An update to the inventory of shore-fishes from the Parque Nacional Sistema Arrecifal Verac · CC0

Butter hamlet

Hypoplectrus unicolor

Also called Mero barril

Grows to
13 cm (5 in)
Group
Fish
Family
Serranidae

Where to see it

Known from Bay Islands, Belize, Bonaire, Curaçao and Mexican Caribbean.

Source: GBIF.

Often confused with

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