Brown-marbled grouper

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Brown-marbled grouper

Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Serranidae
Genus: Epinephelus
Species: E. fuscoguttatus
Binomial name
Epinephelus fuscoguttatus
(Forsskål, 1775)

The brown-marbled grouper (Epinephelus fuscoguttatus) is a species of fish in the Serranidae family. It is found in Australia, Bangladesh, British Indian Ocean Territory, Brunei, Cambodia, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Fiji, Guam, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Kiribati, Madagascar, Malaysia, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Micronesia, Mozambique, Myanmar, New Caledonia, Northern Mariana Islands, Pakistan, Palau, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Réunion, Samoa, Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, Singapore, the Solomon Islands, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Vanuatu, Vietnam, and Yemen. Its natural habitats are open seas, shallow seas, subtidal aquatic beds, coral reefs, and coastal saline lagoons. It is threatened by habitat loss.

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