Photo: Julien Bidet for MDC Seamarc · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Description
- 📏 up to 90 cm
- 🌊 deep lagoons, passes
- 🛡️ Near Threatened (IUCN)
The camouflage grouper is mottled brown, a perfect camouflage on coral. It gathers in large numbers at certain times of year to spawn, which makes it vulnerable to fishing.
Did you know?
In Tahitian it is called ʻapuku or hapuʻu.
Source: TAXREF vernacular database
Tahitian names: TAXREF (INPN/MNHN) – Society Islands. French name: Loche marbrée.
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