Malabar grouper
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An illustration based on the real animal.
A little discovery to share.
Young Malabar groupers also enter places where seawater and river water mix.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Malabar grouper
- Scientific name
- Epinephelus malabaricus
- Japanese name
- ヤイトハタ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Serranidae
- Genus
- Epinephelus
Where the name “Malabar grouper” comes from
The name yaitohata comes from comparing its spots to marks left by moxibustion.
海遊館It lives along Japan's Pacific coast south of Wakayama, in the Ryukyu and Ogasawara Islands, and across the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
The black spots on its sides are smaller than the pupil of its eye, and it also has irregular white markings.
How the Malabar grouper lives
It lives on rocky reefs in shallow parts of bays.
沖縄美ら海水族館Basic data
- Range
- Pacific coast of southern Japan, Ryukyu Islands, Ogasawara Islands, and the Indo-Pacific
Where the Malabar 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
- ヤイトハタ
- 简体中文
- 玛拉巴石斑鱼
- 繁體中文
- 瑪拉巴石斑魚
- 한국어
- 흉기흑점바리
- Español
- Mero Malabárico
- Français
- Mérou Malabare
- Deutsch
- Malabar-Zackenbarsch
- Português (Brasil)
- Garoupa-do-Malabar
- Italiano
- Cernia del Malabar
- العربية
- هامور مليبار
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Kerapu lumpur
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 — ヤイトハタChecked: 2026-11-04
- 沖縄美ら海水族館 — ヤイトハタChecked: 2026-11-07
- 海遊館 — ヤイトハタChecked: 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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