Black Margate

• It owes its name to the sounds it makes by grinding its pharyngeal teeth together, a noise it amplifies with its swim bladder and which is clearly audible underwater.
• The juveniles act as cleaners, removing parasites from larger fish.
• It hunts crustaceans, molluscs, echinoderms and small fish by night, and by day shelters in caves and under ledges.
• The front half of its body is markedly darker than the rear, a feature that tells it apart from other grunts at a glance.
• The juveniles settle on inshore hard bottoms off south-east Florida, which serve as nursery grounds.

Habitat and environment

Rocky and coral reefs of the tropical western Atlantic

Sources consulted: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anisotremus_surinamensis

The pins mark the parks and dive sites where its presence is documented.