Bass groper

Bass groper

Taxobox | name = Bass groper


image_caption = Drawing by Dr Tony Ayling
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Actinopterygii
ordo = Perciformes
familia = Polyprionidae
genus = "Polyprion"
species = "P. moeone"
binomial = "Polyprion moeone"
binomial_authority = Phillipps, 1927

The bass groper, "Polyprion moeone", is a wreckfish of the genus "Polyprion", found around southern Australia, and New Zealand, at depths of between 30 and 800 m on rocky reefs on the upper continental shelf. Its length is between 60 and 200 cm.

The bass groper is quite similar to the hapuku, with which it is often confused. It is a solid heavy-bodied fish with large eyes, a short spiny dorsal fin, and a slightly protruding lower jaw. It is blue-grey in colour with a whitish belly.

The flesh of the bass groper is often sold as Hapuku.

References

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*Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, "Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand", (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) ISBN 0-00-216987-8


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