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Hong Kong grouper

Characteristics

  • Maximum recorded age is 19 years.
  • Used to be very common in Hong Kong’s eastern waters in the 1960s. It is now a rare species.
  • Females can change sex to male, but males are found to change sex back to female under a laboratory environment.

Description

  • Head and body brownish grey with numerous red, orange or gold spots.
  • Several faint diagonal dark bars on body may be visible in most individuals.
  • A dark blotch at mid dorsal fin base.

Common Name: Hong Kong grouper, Red grouper

Family Common Name: Groupers

Family: Epinephelidae

Scientific Name: Epinephelus akaara___(Temminck & Schlegel, 1842)

Genus: Epinephelus

Maximum Length: 58 cm (Total Length)

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未評估
Not Evaluated (ne)
數據缺乏
Data Deficient (dd)
無危
Least Concern (lc)
近危
Near Threatened (nt)
易危
Vulnerable (vu)
瀕危
Endangered (en)
極危
Critically Endangered (cr)
絕滅
Extinct (ex)
Hong Kong grouper

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