MOTTLED GROUPER

Mycteroperca rubra

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IUCN Red List Status: Data Deficient (DD)

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  - Ray-finned fishes +
    - Perch-like fishes +
      - Sea basses: groupers and fairy basslets +
        
        Mycteroperca +
        
        Mottled grouper
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Occurs over rocky and sandy bottoms; young individuals very common in mangrove-lined lagoons. Feeds on mollusks (presumably cephalopods) and small fishes. Marketed fresh.

	Epigonus telescopus (Risso, 1810) Bulls-eye
	Laeops gracilis Fowler, 1934 Philippine slender flounder
	Eviota sparsa Jewett & Lachner, 1983 Speckled pygmy goby
	Diplectrum euryplectrum Jordan & Bollman, 1890 Bighead sand perch
	Chlorurus genazonatus (Randall & Bruce, 1983) Sinai parrotfish

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