Sealife guideThe gag grouperMycteroperca microlepis
Last updated on 06/10/2024 at 11:44 PM
Taxonomy
- Common name: Gag grouper, gag, finescale rockfish
- French name: Badèche baillou
- Spanish name: Cuna aguají,abadejo
- Scientific name: Mycteroperca microlepis (Goode & Bean, 1879)
- Family name: Epinephelidae
- Order name: Perciformes
- Class name: Actinopterygii
Within the same family

Atlantic Goliath Grouper
(Epinephelus itajara)

Bluespotted grouper
(Cephalopholis cyanostigma)

Graysby
(Cephalopholis cruentata)

Potato grouper
(Epinephelus tukula)

Red grouper
(Epinephelus morio)

Red hind
(Epinephelus guttatus)

Redmouth grouper
(Aethaloperca rogaa)

Starry grouper
(Epinephelus labriformis)
Discover also

Ballyhoo
(Hemiramphus brasiliensis)

Flying gurnard
(Dactylopterus volitans)

French grunt
(Haemulon flavolineatum)

Lipspot moray
(Gymnothorax chilospilus)

Mental wrasse
(Oxycheilinus mentalis)

Orange banded butterflyfish
(Coradion chrysozonus)

Sunfish
(Mola mola)

White-spotted puffer
(Arothron hispidus)
The marine species from Caribbean sea

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(Callyspongia plicifera)

Foureye butterflyfish
(Chaetodon capistratus)

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(Pomacanthus arcuatus)

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(Chelonia mydas)

Longspine squirrelfish
(Holocentrus rufus)

Queen parrotfish
(Scarus vetula)

Royal angelfish
(Pygoplites diacanthus)

Smooth trunkfish
(Rhinesomus triqueter)
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