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Golden Grouper
Saloptia powelli
The golden grouper (Saloptia powelli), also known as the pink grouper or Powell's grouper, 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 is found in the eastern Indian Ocean and Western Pacific Ocean.
From the article Golden grouper on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
The golden grouper has a robust, oblong body and its depth is 2.6 to 3.1 times its standard length. The head's dorsal profile is convex, although the intraorbital region is flat. The preopercle is not smooth rounded, but it is not steeply inclined, and it contains three huge curving spines on its bottom edge as well as very minor serrations at its angle. The preopercular spines are mostly covered in skin. The gill cover has a markedly convex upper edge. The dorsal fin contains 8 spines and 8 soft rays while the anal fin contains 3 spines and 8 soft rays. The caudal fin is emarginate. The head, body, and fins are yellow to orange-yellow, shading on the underparts to white or pink. The snout, lips and opper portion of the head are tinted with red and the spines in the dorsal fin are occasionally marked with red streaks. This species attains a maximum recorded total length of 39 centimetres (15 in).
Range & habitat
The golden grouper is found in the eastern Indian Ocean and the Western Pacific Ocean from Christmas Island and the South China Sea east to French Polynesia, north to Taiwan and Okinawa south as far as the Great Barrier Reef.
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 111969.