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Atlantic Pork Fish
Anisotremus virginicus

Inhabits reefs and rocky bottoms. This fish is an omnivore, feeding at night on molluscs, echinoderms, annelids, and crustaceans.

Has a striped yellow and silvery blue body with yellow fins and 2 vertical black bars: one from nape through eye to mouth, another from origin of dorsal fin to base of pectoral fin.

The Atlantic pork fish is the only grunt fish in the Caribbean.

Other creatures found in the Great Barrier Reef display include:

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Creature Name Scientific Name
Blacktip Reef Shark Carcharhinus melanopterus View more...
Blue Runner Caranx crysos View more...
Blue, Yellow Tail Damsel Chrysiptera parasema View more...
Cownose Stingray Rhinoptera bonasus View more...
Emperor Angelfish Pomacanthus imperator View more...
Giant moray Gymnothorax javanicus View more...
Golden Trevally Gnathanodon speciosus View more...
Nurse Shark Ginglymostoma cirratum View more...
Semicircle Angelfish Pomacanthus semicirculatus View more...
Sergeant Major Abudefduf saxatilis View more...

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