Banded grouper
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The banded grouper has small yellow spots scattered all over its body.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Banded grouper
- Scientific name
- Epinephelus awoara
- Japanese name
- アオハタ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Serranidae
- Genus
- Epinephelus
It lives along the coasts of Japan from Honshu to Kyushu, and around Korea, Taiwan, the coast of China and the Philippines.
How the Banded grouper lives
Young fish are often found in tide pools left by the retreating tide. Young fish mainly eat fish.
農業部Basic data
- Size
- Body length: about 40 cm
- Range
- The Seto Inland Sea, Yakushima, the southern Korean Peninsula, Jeju Island, Taiwan, and elsewhere
Where the Banded 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
- アオハタ
- 简体中文
- 青石斑鱼
- 繁體中文
- 青石斑魚
- 한국어
- 도도바리
- Español
- Mero Convicto
- Português (Brasil)
- Garoupa-asiática
- العربية
- هامور مطوق
- Tiếng Việt
- Banded grouper
- Русский
- Групер-авоара
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 — アオハタChecked: 2026-11-04
- 新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海 — アオハタChecked: 2026-11-07
- 農業部 — 青石斑魚的繁養殖技術開發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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