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Epinephelidae
blacksaddled coralgrouper
Plectropomus laevis
One Hundred Twenty Five Centimeters Seabass from the Red Sea
- Black
- Tropical
- Transcontinental
- Marine fish
- Indian Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- Africa
- Oceania
- Fusiform
- Large
- Tropical fish
Black
Tropical
Africa
Fusiform
Largeblacksaddled coralgrouper is known from Indo-Pacific as a marine fish. It occurs in marine waters.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Perches and Allies
- Family
- Epinephelidae
- Genus
- Plectropomus
- Maximum length
- 125 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Indo-Pacific: Kenya to Delagoa Bay, Mozambique, eastward to the Tuamoto Islands, north to the Ryukyu Islands, south to Queensland, Australia and including most islands of the Indian Ocean and of western and central Pacific. Unknown in the Red Sea and Persian Gulf. Misidentified as Plectropomus maculatus by some authors (Ref. 6448 , 6892 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
