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Species/Notes of Interest to Aquarists:
To a number, all seven members of this genus are large, predatory animals.
Still, a small number make their way, as very small juveniles, into the trade
each year. Keep your eyes open.
| Plectropomus areolatus (Ruppell 1830), the Squaretail
Grouper. Indo-Pacific, including the Red Sea but not Australia. To twenty
nine inches in length. Young one in Australia/Heron Island, adult
in the Bunaken, Indonesia. |
 
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| Plectropomus laevis (Lacepede 1801), the Blacksaddled
Coral Grouper. Indo-Pacific, but not the Red Sea, out to the Tuamotus. To
four feet in length. The most, and only commonly imported member of the
genus collected for aquarium use. Cute when small... Juvenile and adult
off Queensland, Australia. |
 
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| Plectropomus leopardus (Lacepede 1802), the Leopard
Coral Grouper. Western Pacific. To forty six inches in length. Juvenile
(about six inches) in Australia and semi-adult one in
Fiji, from where they're occasionally exported. |
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| Plectropomus maculatus (Boch 1790), the Spotted Coral
Grouper. Western Pacific. To three feet in length. This one off of
Pulau Redang, Malaysia. |
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| Plectropomus pessuliferus (Fowler 1904), the Roving
Coral Grouper. Indo Pacific; Red Sea, Zanzibar Sumatra, Fiji. Two
subspecies. P. p. marisburi in the Red Sea, P. p. pessuliferus
in the rest of the Indo-Pacific. Here is the subspecies of the Red
Sea. |
 
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| Plectropomus truncatus now synonymous with P.
areolatus. |
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