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Epinephelidae
deer hamlet
Epinephelus morio
Epinephelid Fish from the Caribbean Sea
- Black
- Tropical
- Regional distribution
- Marine fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- Central America and the Caribbean
- North America
- South America
- Fusiform
- Compressed cross-section
- Large
- Tropical fish
Black
Tropical
Regional distribution
Fusiform
Largedeer hamlet is known around Western Atlantic as a marine fish; It occurs in marine waters, and the largest recorded length is 125 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Perches and Allies
- Family
- Epinephelidae
- Genus
- Epinephelus
- Maximum length
- 125 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Western Atlantic: North Carolina, USA to southern Brazil, including the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean, and Bermuda; strays occur north to Massachusetts.
- Conservation status
- VUVulnerable
Class
Family
Conservation status
