Four-saddle Grouper
Epinephelus spilotoceps
Category: Reef Fish
IUCN Conservation Status: LC - Least Concern - species is widespread and abundant, not currently at risk of extinction
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Teleostei
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Epinephelidae
- Genus
- Epinephelus
Where to Find
Found in 35 diving areas across 23 countries and 4 regions.
- Christmas Island, Australia - 4 records
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia - 4 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 1 records
- Bora Bora, French Polynesia - 4 records
- Fakarava, French Polynesia - 1 records
- Christmas Island (Kiritimati), Kiribati - 13 records
- Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands - 34 records
- Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands - 1 records
- Kosrae, Micronesia - 4 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 1 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 13 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 21 records
- Rock Islands, Palau - 31 records
- Savai'i, Samoa - 1 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 6 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 1 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 5 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 3 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 5 records
- Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu - 1 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 1 records
- Grande Comore, Comoros - 8 records
- Moheli, Comoros - 3 records
- Watamu & Malindi, Kenya - 1 records
- South Ari Atoll, Maldives - 2 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 6 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 36 records
- Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique - 7 records
- Tofo & Inhambane, Mozambique - 1 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 3 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 19 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 1 records
- Zanzibar & Pemba, Tanzania - 1 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 1 records
- Derawan Islands, Indonesia - 2 records