Epinephelus malabaricus (Schneider, 1801)

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Epinephelus malabaricus : Sauvage, 1891 b : 67Histoire naturelle des Poissons. | Jordan & Seale, 1907 : 19Fishes of the islands of Luzon and Panay. | Bauchot & Bianchi, 1984 : pl. 2Fiches FAO d'identification des espèces pour les besoins de la pêche. Guide des poissons commerciaux de Madagascar (espèces marines et d'eaux saumâtres). | Heemstra & Randall, 1993 : 184-186, fig. 351, pl. XIIIaFAO Species Catalogue. Vol. 16. Groupers of the world (family Serranidae, subfamily Epinephelinae). An annotated and illustrated catalogue of the grouper, rockcod, hind, coral grouper and lyretail species known to date..
Serranus malabaricus : Schneider, 1801 : 319, pl. 63 (senior synonym)See Bloch & Schneider. | Day, 1875 : 19, pl. 4, fig. 2 (senior synonym)The fishes of India ; being a natural history of the fishes known to inhabit the seas and fresh waters of India, Burma and Ceylon. Text and atlas in 4 parts..
Epinephelus tauvina (non Forskål, 1775) (part.) : Barnard, 1927 : 484 (misidentification)A monograph of the marine fishes of South Africa. Part II. (Teleostei, Discocephali to end. appendix). | Smith, 1949 a : 197 (misidentification)The sea fishes of Southern Africa..
Epinephelus tauvina (non Forskål, 1775) : Pellegrin, 1934 a : 427 (misidentification)La faune ichthyologique des eaux douces de Madagascar. | Kiener, 1963 a : 83 (misidentification)Poissons, pêche et pisciculture à Madagascar. | Kiener, 1966 a : 1130 (misidentification)Contribution à l'étude écologique et biologique des eaux saumâtres malgaches. Les poissons euryhalins et leur rôle dans le développement des pêches. | Whitfield, 1980 : 206 (misidentification)A checklist of fish species recorded from Maputoland estuarine systems..

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Current distribution known : known from the Red Sea and Indo-Pacific «o* area (South Africa to Japan, Australia, Palau, Yap and Fiji). It occurs in continental and insular localities: Gulf of Aqaba, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Zanzibar, Tanzania, Mozambique, Oman, Madagascar, Comoros, Seychelles, India, Sri Lanka, Andaman Islands, Indonesia, Singapore, Philippines, Taiwan, China, Papua New Guinea, New Ireland, Caroline Islands, New Caledonia, and Tonga .
Distribution_references : Heemstra &. Randall, 1993 .
Habitat / home range : a common species that is found in a variety of habitats: coral and rocky reefs, tidepools, estuaries, mangrove swamps and sandy/mud bottom from shore to depths of 150 m .
Habitat_references : Heemstra &. Randall, 1993 .
Morphology / anatomy : Heemstra &. Randall, 1993 .
Size : 974 mm SL, 25 kg .
Types :
- Holocentrus malabaricus Schneider in Bloch & Schneider, 1801: 319, pl. 63. Type locality: "habitat in Tranquebariam". No information on type material.
Use and trade : undoubtedly one of the most important groupers in fisheries of the Indo-Pacific region .