Yellow grouper

Characteristics

  • Juveniles often recorded singly.
  • Can change sex from female to male.
  • Females become sexually mature when reaching around 24 cm (Standard Length).
  • In Hong Kong, the breeding season is from February to May.
  • Smaller individuals tend to stay in shallower sandy rubble areas and near coral areas. Larger individuals live in deeper muddy and sandy areas.

Description

  • Body whitish with four dark vertical bars, and a fifth bar at tail base.
  • Body colour and patterns become a darker, mottled brown towards adulthood.
  • Numerous small yellow spots through the body.
  • Head dark brown.
  • Edges of the caudal fin and posterior part of the dorsal fin may be yellow.

Common Name: Banded grouper, Yellow grouper

Family Common Name: Groupers

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

Maximum Length: 60 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)
Yellow grouper