Giant grouper

Not to be confused with Goliath grouper.
"Brown spotted cod" redirects here. For the Southern African fish, see Brown-spotted rockcod. For the Persian Gulf fish, see Brown spotted reef cod.

Giant grouper
Giant grouper at Ripley's Aquarium of Canada
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Serranidae
Subfamily: Epinephelinae
Genus: Epinephelus
Species:
E. lanceolatus
Binomial name
Epinephelus lanceolatus
(Bloch, 1790)
Synonyms[2]
  • Holocentrus lanceolatus Bloch, 1790
  • Promicrops lanceolatus (Bloch, 1790)
  • Serranus lanceolatus (Bloch, 1790)
  • Serranus geographicus Valenciennes, 1828
  • Serranus abdominalis Peters, 1855
  • Batrachus gigas Günther, 1869
  • Oligorus goliath De Vis, 1882
  • Serranus phaeostigmaeus Fowler, 1907
  • Stereolepoides thompsoni Fowler, 1923

The giant grouper (Epinephelus lanceolatus), also known as the Queensland groper (grouper), brindle grouper or mottled-brown sea bass, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a grouper from the subfamily Epinephelinae which is part of the family Serranidae, which also includes the anthias and sea basses. It has a wide Indo-Pacific distribution and is one of the largest extant species of bony fish.

  1. ^ Fennessy, S.; Pollard, D.A.; Samoilys, M. (2018). "Epinephelus lanceolatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T7858A100465809. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T7858A100465809.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  2. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Epinephelus lanceolatus". FishBase. December 2019 version.