Sealife guideThe gag grouperMycteroperca microlepis
Taxonomy
- Common name: Gag grouper, gag, finescale rockfish
- French name: Badèche baillou
- Spanish name: Cuna aguají,abadejo
- Scientific name: Mycteroperca microlepis (Goode & Bean, 1879)
- Family name: Epinephelidae
- Order name: Perciformes
- Class name: Actinopterygii
Within the same family
Roving coral grouper
(Plectropomus pessuliferus)
Camouflage grouper
(Epinephelus polyphekadion)
Greasy grouper
(Epinephelus tauvina)
Malabar grouper
(Epinephelus malabaricus)
Brown-marbled grouper
(Epinephelus fuscoguttatus)
Potato grouper
(Epinephelus tukula)
Darkfin hind
(Cephalopholis urodeta)
Redmouth grouper
(Aethaloperca rogaa)
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