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black grouper (Mycteroperca bonaci)
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Epinephelidae

black grouper

Mycteroperca bonaci

Fish Reaching One Hundred Fifty Centimeters in the Caribbean Sea

  • Black
  • Tropical
  • Regional distribution
  • Marine fish
  • Atlantic Ocean
  • Central America and the Caribbean
  • North America
  • South America
  • Fusiform
  • Large
  • Tropical fish

black grouper is known from Western Atlantic as a marine fish. It occurs in marine waters.

Maximum length
150 cm
Water
Marine
Body shape
fusiform
Distribution
Western Atlantic: Bermuda and Massachusetts, USA to southern Brazil, including the southern Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean. Adults are unknown from the northeastern coast of the USA.
Conservation status
NTNear Threatened

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