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Epinephelidae
smooth grouper
Dermatolepis striolata
Seabass Reaching Eighty Five Centimeters
smooth grouper is a marine fish found around Western Indian Ocean. It inhabits reef habitat. Records give a maximum length of 85 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Perches and Allies
- Family
- Epinephelidae
- Genus
- Dermatolepis
- Maximum length
- 85 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Western Indian Ocean: Gulf of Oman and south coast of Arabian Peninsula, Aldabra, Comoros, Madagascar, and coast of Africa from Kenya to Durban, South Africa.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern

