Comet grouper
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The comet grouper is traded at high prices as a food fish.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Comet grouper
- Scientific name
- Epinephelus morrhua
- Japanese name
- ホウキハタ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Serranidae
- Genus
- Epinephelus
It lives in Japanese waters from Izu Oshima and Sagami Bay to the Okinawa Islands, around southern Taiwan and Hong Kong, and across the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
It looks like the dot-dash grouper, but can be told apart by the curved lines on its sides, which are unbroken.
Basic data
- Range
- Izu Oshima, Ogasawara Islands, Amami Oshima, Okinawa Islands, southern Taiwan, Hong Kong, the Indo-Pacific, and elsewhere
Where the Comet 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
- ホウキハタ
- 简体中文
- 弓斑石斑鱼
- 繁體中文
- 弧紋石斑魚
- Español
- More Cometa
- Français
- Cabot de fond
- Português (Brasil)
- Garoupa-cometa
- العربية
- هامور مذنب
- Русский
- Тресковый групер
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 — ホウキハタChecked: 2026-11-04
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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