Brown-marbled grouper
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The brown-marbled grouper has a large mouth lined with fine, sharp teeth.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Brown-marbled grouper
- Scientific name
- Epinephelus fuscoguttatus
- Japanese name
- アカマダラハタ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Serranidae
- Genus
- Epinephelus
It lives from the Okinawa and Yaeyama Islands across the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
How the Brown-marbled grouper lives
It lives around isolated reefs in lagoons and bays. It mainly eats fish and crustaceans such as shrimp and crabs. It is also often found on outer reef slopes and in clear waters.
農業部Basic data
- Range
- Okinawa Islands, Yaeyama Islands, and the Indo-Pacific
Where the Brown-marbled 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
- アカマダラハタ
- 简体中文
- 棕点石斑鱼
- 繁體中文
- 棕點石斑魚
- Español
- Mero Manchado
- Français
- Mérou Marron
- Deutsch
- Stierkopf-Zackenbarsch
- Português (Brasil)
- Garoupa-marmoreada-do-Indo-Pacífico
- العربية
- هامور بني رخامي
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Kerapu harimau
- Tiếng Việt
- Brown-marbled grouper
- Русский
- Буропятнистый групер
- ไทย
- ปลาเก๋าเสือ
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 — アカマダラハタChecked: 2026-11-04
- 農業部 — 棕點石斑魚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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