Sealife guideThe gag grouperMycteroperca microlepis
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 creolefish
(Paranthias furcifer)

Coney
(Cephalopholis fulva)

Greasy grouper
(Epinephelus tauvina)

Malabar grouper
(Epinephelus malabaricus)

Brown-marbled grouper
(Epinephelus fuscoguttatus)

Red grouper
(Epinephelus morio)

Tomato grouper
(Cephalopholis sonnerati)

Halfspotted grouper
(Cephalopholis hemistiktos)
Explore also

False leopard wrasse
(Macropharyngodon ornatus)

European flounder
(Platichthys flesus)

Filamented goby
(Exyrias akihito)

Neon goby
(Elacatinus oceanops)

Lipspot moray
(Gymnothorax chilospilus)

Bluetail unicornfish
(Naso caeruleacauda)

Yellow blotch angelfish
(Pomacanthus maculosus)

Striated frogfish
(Antennarius striatus)
The marine species from Caribbean sea

Atlantic bigeye
(Priacanthus arenatus)

Blackbar soldierfish
(Myripristis jacobus)

Checkered puffer
(Sphoeroides testudineus)

Giant caribbean anemone
(Condylactis gigantea)

Labyrinthine brain coral
(Diploria labyrinthiformis)

Longsnout seahorse
(Hippocampus reidi)

Nassau grouper
(Epinephelus striatus)

White grunt
(Haemulon plumierii)
Dive centers

'Les Ilets' dive center

Noa dive center
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