Color light gray or brown; large adults with elongated caudal-fin rays; reddish-brown spots on sides that tend to be grouped into lines; some yellow around corners of mouth.

NEARSHORE reefs off the northeastern coast, and on OFFSHORE reefs in the Gulf.

Generally smaller than Gags or Blacks.

Spawns in late spring; feeds on small fish, squid, and crustaceans; undergoes sex transformation from female to male as it becomes older.