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grouper
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Groupers are a diverse group of marine ray-finned fish in the family Epinephelidae, in the order Perciformes.
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Epinephelinae is a subfamily of fish within the family Serranidae. It belongs to the order Perciformes, class Teleostei, and phylum Chordata. The taxon was described by Bleeker in 1874. Its habitats include marine, brackish, and freshwater environments. The Japanese common name for the group is ハタ亜科.
A related species, the Dusky Grouper, is classified under the iconic taxon Actinopterygii. This species has recorded 5376 observations. The subfamily is referenced by 824 other encyclopedia articles.
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Species
ハタ亜科
Subfamily
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderPerciformes
- FamilySerranidae
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Groupers are a diverse group of marine ray-finned fish in the family Epinephelidae, in the order Perciformes.
Groupers were long considered a subfamily of the seabasses in Serranidae, but are now treated as distinct. Not all members of this family are called "groupers". The common name "grouper" is usually given to fish in one of two large genera: Epinephelus and Mycteroperca. In addition, the species classified in the small genera Anyperidon, Cromileptes, Dermatolepis, Graciela, Saloptia, and Triso are also called "groupers". Fish in the genus Plectropomus are referred to as "coral groupers". These genera are all classified in the subfamily Epiphelinae. However, some of the hamlets (genus Alphestes), the hinds (genus Cephalopholis), the lyretails (genus Variola), and some other small genera (Gonioplectrus, Niphon, Paranthias) are also in this subfamily, and occasional species in other serranid genera have common names involving the word "grouper". Nonetheless, the word "grouper" on its own is usually taken as meaning the family Epinephelidae.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “grouper” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.