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An illustration based on the real animal.
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It looks very much like the areolate grouper, but can be told apart by its rounded tail fin, which has no white edge.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Brown spotted reef cod
- Scientific name
- Epinephelus chlorostigma
- Japanese name
- ホウセキハタ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Serranidae
- Genus
- Epinephelus
It lives in Japanese waters from Sagami Bay to Kyushu and Okinawa, and across a wide area of the Indian Ocean and western Pacific.
It looks very much like the areolate grouper, but can be told apart by its rounded tail fin, which has no white edge.
Basic data
- Range
- Okinawa Prefecture, Ogasawara Islands, southern Korean Peninsula, Hong Kong, Spratly Islands, the Indo-West Pacific, and elsewhere
Where the Brown spotted reef cod 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
- ホウセキハタ
- 简体中文
- 网纹石斑鱼
- 繁體中文
- 密點石斑魚
- 한국어
- 구실우럭
- Español
- Mero Pintado
- Français
- Pintade
- Português (Brasil)
- Garoupa-de-Seychelles
- العربية
- هامور الشعاب المرجانية البني
- Русский
- Крупнопятнистый 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 — ホウセキハタ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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