Red grouper
Epinephelus morio
Category: Reef Fish
IUCN Conservation Status: VU - Vulnerable - facing a high risk of extinction in the wild
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Teleostei
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Epinephelidae
- Genus
- Epinephelus
Where to Find
Found in 24 diving areas across 16 countries and 4 regions.
- Antigua South Coast, Antigua & Barbuda - 2 records
- Barbuda, Antigua & Barbuda - 2 records
- Bimini, Bahamas - 1190 records
- Long Island, Bahamas - 1 records
- Nassau & New Providence, Bahamas - 1 records
- North Shore, Bermuda - 5 records
- Salt Island & Cooper Island, British Virgin Islands - 2 records
- Virgin Gorda & Anegada, British Virgin Islands - 2 records
- Montego Bay, Jamaica - 1 records
- Negril, Jamaica - 1 records
- Fajardo & East Coast, Puerto Rico - 2 records
- St. Kitts, St. Kitts & Nevis - 4 records
- St. Thomas & St. John, US Virgin Islands - 2 records
- Lighthouse Reef, Belize - 14 records
- Turneffe Atoll, Belize - 1 records
- Caribbean Coast, Guatemala - 13 records
- Utila, Honduras - 14 records
- Corn Islands, Nicaragua - 1 records
- Yucatán Cenotes, Mexico - 1 records
- Arraial do Cabo, Brazil - 27 records
- Salvador & Bahia, Brazil - 4 records
- Santa Marta & Tayrona, Colombia - 2 records
- Los Roques Archipelago, Venezuela - 2 records
- Morrocoy & Chichiriviche, Venezuela - 4 records