Lachnolaimus

Average abundance, measured as number of individuals per grouper pit, of large fish, including large grunts such as the margate (Haemulon album) and cottonwick (Haemulon melanurum), snapper (Lutjanus spp.), grouper (Mycteroperca spp, Epinephelus spp., and the graysby, Cephalopholis cruentata), triggerfish (Balistes spp.), and the hogfish (Lachnolaimus maximus), associated with grouper pits surveyed during 2012-2015 off southwestern Florida, shown for each predator presence or absence category: no predator; red grouper (.Epinephelus morio) only; species of lionfish (Pterois spp.) only; or both predators.

0.00 0.03 0.09 Pomacanthus arcuatus 0.00 0.05 0.03 Haemulon album 0.11 0.00 0.00 Gymnothorax moringa 0.03 0.00 0.09 Myripristis jacobus 0.10 0.00 0.00 Aulostomus maculatus 0.01 0.00 0.03 Epinephelus adscensionis# 0.01 0.00 0.00 Balistes vetula 0.01 0.03 0.03 Epinephelus guttatus# 0.03 0.00 0.00 Haemulon melanurum 0.00 0.05 0.00 Lutjanus analis# 0.05 0.00 0.00 Priacanthus arenatus 0.00 0.03 0.00 Seriola dumerili# 0.01 0.00 0.03 Lachnolaimus maximus# 0.00 0.00 0.00 Seriola spp.# 0.00 0.00 0.00 Acanthurus coeruleus 0.00 0.00 0.03 Lutjanus buccanella# 0.00 0.00 0.03 Lutjanus campechanus# 0.00 0.00 0.03 Lutjanus griseus# 0.00 0.00 0.03 Monacanthus tuckeri 0.00 0.00 0.03 Opsanus spp.

Caracteristicas biologicas del pez perro, Lachnolaimus maximus (Walbaum), en el Golfo de Batabano, Cuba.

Spawning and larval development of the hogfish, Lachnolaimus maximus (Pisces: Labridae).

Abstract--Hogfish (Labridae: Lachnolaimus maximus) is distributed across several biogeographic regions, but its stock structure has been poorly documented, confounding stock assessment and management of this reef fishery species.

One such example is the hogfish (Labridae: Lachnolaimus maximus), a long-lived reef fish that occurs in temperate to tropical waters of the western Atlantic Ocean (from Brazil to Bermuda) and throughout the Gulf of Mexico (Claro et al., 1989; McBride and Richardson, 2007; McBride et al., 2008).