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Epinephelidae
Black-dotted grouper
Epinephelus stictus
Five diagonal stripes
Black-dotted grouper is known from Eastern Indian Ocean and Western Pacific as a marine fish. It occurs in marine waters.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Perches and Allies
- Family
- Epinephelidae
- Genus
- Epinephelus
- Maximum length
- 33 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Eastern Indian Ocean and Western Pacific: known only from southern Japan, Hong Kong, Hainan Islands of China, Viet Nam, South China Sea, Java, and northwest Australia. Record from Taiwan (Ref. 6864 ) is dubious.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern

