Areolate grouper
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The eggs and young of the areolate grouper are thought to live in the open sea.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Areolate grouper
- Scientific name
- Epinephelus areolatus
- Japanese name
- オオモンハタ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Serranidae
- Genus
- Epinephelus
It lives along Japan's Pacific coast from Chiba and Sagami Bay to Kyushu, around the Ryukyu Islands and Taiwan, and across the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific.
It lives on shallow continental shelves, among seaweed beds and rocky reefs and on fine sandy or muddy bottoms.
How the Areolate grouper lives
It lays eggs during a limited period.
鳥羽水族館Basic data
- Diet
- Fish and benthic invertebrates
- Range
- The Indo-West Pacific
Where the Areolate 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
- オオモンハタ
- 简体中文
- 宝石石斑鱼
- 繁體中文
- 寶石石斑魚
- 한국어
- 대문바리
- Español
- Mero areolado
- Français
- Vieille Maconde
- Português (Brasil)
- Garoupa-areolada
- العربية
- هامور ذو هالات
- Tiếng Việt
- Cá mú bông
- Русский
- Жёлто-белый 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 — オオモンハタ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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