- Red grouper
Taxobox
name = Red grouper
status = NT | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum =Animalia
phylum =Chordata
classis =Actinopterygii
ordo =Perciformes
familia =Serranidae
genus = "Epinephelus "
species = "E. morio"
binomial = "Epinephelus morio"
binomial_authority = (Valenciennes, 1828)
synonyms = The red grouper ("Epinephelus morio") is a species offish in theSerranidae family. It is found inAnguilla ,Antigua and Barbuda ,Aruba , theBahamas ,Barbados ,Belize ,Bermuda ,Brazil ,Cayman Islands ,Colombia ,Costa Rica ,Cuba ,Dominica , theDominican Republic ,French Guiana ,Grenada ,Guadeloupe ,Guatemala ,Guyana ,Haiti ,Honduras ,Jamaica ,Martinique ,Mexico ,Montserrat ,Netherlands Antilles ,Nicaragua ,Panama ,Puerto Rico ,Saint Kitts and Nevis ,Saint Lucia ,Saint Vincent and the Grenadines ,Suriname ,Trinidad and Tobago ,Turks and Caicos Islands , theUnited States ,Venezuela , theBritish Virgin Islands , and theU.S. Virgin Islands . Its naturalhabitat s are opensea s, shallow seas, subtidal aquatic beds,coral reef s, rocky shores, sandy shores,estuarine waters, intertidal flats, intertidalmarsh es, coastal salinelagoon s, coastal freshwaterlagoon s, andkarst s.ource
* Garcia-Moliner & G., Eklund, A-M. 2004. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/44681/all Epinephelus morio] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on
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