The Brown Marbled Grouper (Epinephelus fuscoguttatus) sometimes called a Tiger Grouper, is a medium sized fish that lives around Coral reefs and rocky pinnacles.
As the Brown Marbled Grouper lives close to the bottom, it is known as a benthic marine animal.
The Brown Marbled Grouper is a relatively common sight seen by scuba divers in the warm sea around Koh Tao and during Night dives has been known to use the light from divers torches to help it hunt.
How to Identify a Brown Marbled Grouper
The Brown Marbled Grouper is a stocky medium size fish with a large mouth with lots of small teeth at the front and also canine teeth.
The body is a pale light brown with large irregular sized dark brown blotches together with lots of small dark brown spots.
The fins are round and the dorsal has many small serrated spines running its length.
Brown Marble Groupers grow to around 120cm but on average are around 50 cm in length.
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17 окт 2023
