Camouflage grouper
Epinephelus polyphekadion
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 35 diving areas across 24 countries and 5 regions.
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 20 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 6 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 92 records
- Fakarava, French Polynesia - 29 records
- Rangiroa, French Polynesia - 6 records
- Christmas Island (Kiritimati), Kiribati - 3 records
- Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands - 12 records
- Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon, Micronesia - 2 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 13 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 16 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 27 records
- Rock Islands, Palau - 37 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 3 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 7 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 2 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 1 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 1 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 2 records
- Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu - 2 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 3 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 2 records
- Okinawa Main Island, Japan - 2 records
- Grande Comore, Comoros - 1 records
- Moheli, Comoros - 1 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 3 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 1 records
- Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique - 2 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 64 records
- Zanzibar & Pemba, Tanzania - 2 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 1 records
- Flores, Indonesia - 1 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 3 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 5 records
- Nha Trang, Vietnam - 4 records