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Epinephelidae
mutton hamlet
Alphestes afer
Hunting crustaceans among seagrass after dark
- Tropical
- Regional distribution
- Marine fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- Central America and the Caribbean
- North America
- South America
- Fusiform
- Medium
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Regional distribution
Marine fish
Fusiform
Mediummutton hamlet is a marine fish found around Western Atlantic. It inhabits marine waters. Records give a maximum length of 33 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Perches and Allies
- Family
- Epinephelidae
- Genus
- Alphestes
- Maximum length
- 33 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Western Atlantic: Bermuda, south Florida (USA), Gulf of Mexico, the Bahamas, Cuba, West Indies, Panama, Venezuela, and southward to the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Alphestes afer has recently been re-discovered at São Tomé in the Gulf of Guinea of the Eastern Atlantic.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
