The bluestriped grunt has a deep, almond-shaped body with a moderately convex dorsal profile.

[2] The overall colour of this species’ head and body is yellow broken by thin, longitudinal blue stripes.

[1] The spawning behaviour of the bluestriped grunt is little known, but is known to take place from January to April in the Caribbean Sea.

These fish often display open-mouthed, head-on pushing each other backwards, and they also produce a grunting noise using pharyngeal teeth.

They are preyed on by larger fish such as sharks and groupers, and among their known parasites is the monogenean, Encotyllabe spari.

[3] The bluestriped grunt was first formally described in 1803 as Sparus sciurus by English zoologist George Shaw (1751-1813), with the type locality given as the Antilles.