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Epinephelidae
Misty grouper
Hyporthodus mystacinus
Fish Reaching One Hundred Sixty Centimeters in Mexican Waters
Misty grouper is known from Western Atlantic as a marine fish. It occurs in marine waters.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Perches and Allies
- Family
- Epinephelidae
- Genus
- Hyporthodus
- Maximum length
- 160 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Western Atlantic: Bermuda, North Carolina (USA), Florida (USA), Gulf of Mexico, Bahamas, Cuba, Yucatan (Mexico), Jamaica, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and the Leeward islands to Trinidad. Eastern Pacific: Galapagos Islands.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern

