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Epinephelidae
foursaddle grouper
Epinephelus spilotoceps
Seabass beneath Japanese Waters
- Tropical
- Transcontinental
- Marine fish
- Indian Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- Africa
- East Asia
- Oceania
- South Asia
- Southeast Asia
- Fusiform
- Compressed cross-section
- Medium
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Marine fish
Africa
Fusiform
Mediumfoursaddle grouper is known around Indo-West-Pacific as a marine fish; It occurs in marine waters, and records give a maximum length of 47.5 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Perches and Allies
- Family
- Epinephelidae
- Genus
- Epinephelus
- Maximum length
- 47.5 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Indo-West-Pacific: East coast of Africa to the Line Islands. Except for its occurrence along the African coast (Zanzibar, Tanzania to Ponta Zavora, Mozambique) it seems to be primarily an insular species, occurring at most (probably all) of the islands of tropical Indian and west-central Pacific. Not known from the Red Sea, Persian Gulf, Sri Lanka, Philippines, Taiwan, Japan, or Australian waters (however, it is found at Rowley Shoals off Western Australia).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
