Brown-marbled grouper

Taxobox
name = Brown-marbled grouper

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status = NT | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Actinopterygii
ordo = Perciformes
familia = Serranidae
genus = "Epinephelus"
species = "E. fuscoguttatus"
binomial = "Epinephelus fuscoguttatus"
binomial_authority = (Forsskål, 1775)
synonyms = 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.

ource

* Cornish, A. 2004. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/44673/all Epinephelus fuscoguttatus] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 04 August 2007.