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Florida Sportfishing Species
Grunts
Family Lobotidae
 TRIPLETAIL
Description: head and body variously mottled, tan to dark brown; fins (except spinous dorsal and pectroal fins) almost black; pale olive band across base of caudal fin; broad, dark brown bar from eye across cheek below corner of preopercle, and another from upper corner of eye to beginning of dorsal fin; two dark streaks on top of head, behind nostrils; upper profile concave at nape; edge of preopercle strongly serrated.
Size: to 42 inches.
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