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Epinephelidae
Surge grouper
Epinephelus socialis
Seabass in the Hawaiian Islands
Surge grouper is known around Pacific Ocean as a marine fish; It occurs in marine waters, and the species reaches a recorded maximum of 52 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Perches and Allies
- Family
- Epinephelidae
- Genus
- Epinephelus
- Maximum length
- 52 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Pacific Ocean: islands of Oceania; Ogasawara Islands, Marcus Islands, Mariana Islands, Marshall Islands, Phoenix Islands, American Samoa, Cook Islands, Line Islands, Society Islands, Rapa, Tuamoto Islands, and the Pitcairn Group. Unknown in Hawaii, the Marquesas, Caroline Islands, nor in any Melanesian islands.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern

