HAEMULIDAE

Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C. & Abohweyere, P. O., 2003, A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London, Journal of Natural History 37 (18), pp. 2213-2267 : 2241

HAEMULIDAE

Placed in Pomadasidae [sic], which is a junior synonym of Haemulidae , by Irvine. On average about 45 000 tonnes of grunts are caught in the region each year ( FAO, 2000). Ten species have been recorded from the mainland coast of tropical West Africa (Roux in Quéro et al., 1990: 783–788), of which five were reported by Irvine from Ghana (see also table 1). The characters separating species do not appear to be well quantified and this family needs to be revised for the eastern Atlantic.