Blacktip grouper
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The blacktip grouper changes from female to male as it grows.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Blacktip grouper
- Scientific name
- Epinephelus fasciatus
- Japanese name
- アカハタ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Serranidae
- Genus
- Epinephelus
It lives in Japanese waters from Toyama Bay and Sagami Bay to the Ryukyu Islands, and across a wide area of the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
How the Blacktip grouper lives
It catches and eats fish, shrimp and crabs. It is often hidden in gaps between rocks. It lays eggs mainly in summer. The long dorsal and pelvic fin spines of larvae shorten as the young settle on the seabed.
東京都島しょ農林水産総合センター沖縄美ら海水族館Basic data
- Range
- Izu Islands, Ogasawara Islands, Ryukyu Islands, southern Korean Peninsula, southern Taiwan, Hong Kong, the Indo-Pacific, and elsewhere
Where the Blacktip grouper has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- アカハタ
- 简体中文
- 横条石斑鱼
- 繁體中文
- 橫帶石斑魚
- 한국어
- 홍바리
- Español
- Falso Abadejo
- Français
- Rougette
- Deutsch
- Baskenmützen-Zackenbarsch
- Português (Brasil)
- Garoupa-de-faixas-vermelhas
- Italiano
- Cernia rossa fasciata
- العربية
- هامور أسود الطرف
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Kerapu sendok
- Tiếng Việt
- Cá song sọc ngang đen
- Русский
- Полосатый групер
- Türkçe
- Şeritli Orfoz
- ไทย
- ปลาเก๋าแดง
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 鳥羽水族館 — アカハタChecked: 2026-11-04
- 東京都島しょ農林水産総合センター — アカハタChecked: 2026-11-07
- 沖縄美ら海水族館 — アカハタChecked: 2026-11-07
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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