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Epinephelidae
catface grouper
Epinephelus andersoni
Eighty Seven Centimeters Seabass of the Indian Ocean
- Tropical
- Regional distribution
- Atlantic Ocean
- Indian Ocean
- Africa
- Fusiform
- Compressed cross-section
- Large
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Regional distribution
Atlantic Ocean
Fusiform
Largecatface grouper is known from Southeast Atlantic and Western Indian Ocean as a marine fish. It occurs in reef habitat.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Perches and Allies
- Family
- Epinephelidae
- Genus
- Epinephelus
- Maximum length
- 87 cm
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Southeast Atlantic and Western Indian Ocean: known with certainty only from the southeast coast of Africa between Quissico, Mozambique (24°50'S) and Knysna, South Africa (23°E). Reports from Madagascar are dubious.
- Conservation status
- NTNear Threatened
Class
Family
Conservation status
