Longtooth grouper
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An illustration based on the real animal.
A little discovery to share.
Longtooth groupers are caught for food and are also farmed.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Longtooth grouper
- Scientific name
- Epinephelus bruneus
- Japanese name
- クエ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Serranidae
- Genus
- Epinephelus
It lives in seas from western Japan to southern Korea, Taiwan, the coast of China and the South China Sea.
Basic data
- Range
- Coastal areas of western Japan, the East China Sea, and the South China Sea
Where the Longtooth 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
- クエ
- 简体中文
- 褐带石斑鱼
- 繁體中文
- 褐帶石斑魚
- 한국어
- 자바리
- Português (Brasil)
- Garoupa-castanha
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 — クエ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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