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Groupers are fish of any of a number of genera in the subfamily Epinephelinae of the family Serranidae, in the order Perciformes. Not all serranids are called "groupers"; the family also includes the sea basses. The common name "grouper" is usually given to fish in one of two large genera: Epinephelus and Mycteroperca.
The giant grouper has a wide Indo-Pacific distribution, it is the most widely distributed species of grouper in the world. [5] It occurs from the Red Sea and the eastern coasts of Africa as far south as Algoa Bay in South Africa and across the Indian Ocean into the Western Pacific Ocean as far east as the Pitcairn Islands and Hawaii.
The red grouper is a commercially important species for fisheries throughout its range and it is also an valuable resource for recreational fisheries too. [4] It is the most frequently captured grouper by commercial fisheries in the United States and in Mexico. [1] Red grouper caught off Key West in the Florida Keys.
The Atlantic goliath grouper was historically referred to as the "jewfish", and there are several theories as to the name's origin. A 1996 review of the term's history from its first recorded usage in 1697 concluded that the species' physical characteristics were frequently connected to "mainstay caricatures of anti-Semitic beliefs", whereas the interpretation that the fish was regarded as ...
Nassau grouper Nassau grouper in Saba. The Nassau grouper has been depicted on postage stamps of Cuba (1965, 1975), the Bahamas (1971 5-cent), and Antigua and Barbuda (1987 40-c). The threats to the grouper include overfishing, fishing during the breeding period, habitat loss, pollution, invasive species, and catching undersized grouper.
The humpback grouper (Cromileptes altivelis), also known as the panther grouper, (in Australia) barramundi cod, (in the Philippines, in Tagalog) lapu-lapung senorita, (in the Philippines, in Bisayan) miro-miro, (in Japan) sarasa-hata, (in India) kalava, and many other local names, [4] is a species of marine ray-finned fish.
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The golden grouper was first formally described in 1964 by the South African ichthyologist James Leonard Brierley Smith (1897-1968) with the type locality given as the Cook Islands. [6] Smith stated that it was closely related to the groupers in the genus Plectropomus but differs in its dentition and in the greater rigidity of the spines in its ...