Camouflage grouper
Amazing fact
The camouflage grouper has a dark, saddle-shaped marking on the upper base of its tail fin.
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The camouflage grouper has a dark, saddle-shaped marking on the upper base of its tail fin.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Camouflage grouper
- Scientific name
- Epinephelus polyphekadion
- Japanese name
- マダラハタ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Serranidae
- Genus
- Epinephelus
It lives along the Pacific coast from Wakayama southward, in the Ryukyu and Ogasawara Islands, and across a wide area of the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
How the Camouflage grouper lives
In the Seychelles, its gatherings at a reef pass overlap in place and time with those of brown marbled groupers. The study reports that spawning gatherings quickly dispersed after reaching peak abundance.
United States Environmental Protection AgencyBasic data
- Range
- Pacific coast of southern Japan, Ryukyu Islands, Ogasawara Islands, and the Indo-Pacific
Where the Camouflage 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
- マダラハタ
- 简体中文
- 清水石斑鱼
- 繁體中文
- 清水石斑魚
- Español
- Mero Disfrazado
- Français
- Loche Crasseuse
- Deutsch
- Getarnter Zackenbarsch
- Português (Brasil)
- Garoupa-mascarada
- العربية
- هامور مموه
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Kerapu batik
- Tiếng Việt
- Camouflage grouper
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 — マダラハタChecked: 2026-11-04
- Museums Victoria / OzFishNet — Camouflage Grouper, Epinephelus polyphekadionChecked: 2026-11-07
- United States Environmental Protection Agency — Dynamics of camouflage (Epinephelus polyphekadion) and brown marbled grouper (Epinephelus fuscoguttatus) spawning aggregations at a remote reef site, SeychellesChecked: 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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