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Epinephelidae
speckled grouper
Epinephelus magniscuttis
Seabass from the Persian Gulf
- Tropical
- Regional distribution
- Marine fish
- Pacific Ocean
- Africa
- Europe
- Oceania
- Southeast Asia
- Fusiform
- Compressed cross-section
- Large
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Regional distribution
Marine fish
Fusiform
Largespeckled grouper is a marine fish found around Indo-West Pacific. It inhabits reef habitat. Records give a maximum length of 150 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Perches and Allies
- Family
- Epinephelidae
- Genus
- Epinephelus
- Maximum length
- 150 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Indo-West Pacific: Natal coast of South Africa, northern Mozambique, Reunion, Mauritius, New Caledonia, Philippines, New Guinea, New Ireland, and Fiji. Recently recorded from Tonga (Ref. 53797 ). Unknown in the Red Sea and Persian Gulf.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
