Description

Also known as Blackspot Cod, Black-spotted Rockcod, Brown Spotted Grouper, Cod, Estuary Cod, Estuary Rockcod, Giant Rockcod, Greasy Grouper, Hind, Malabar Cod, Malabar Reefcod, Malabar Rockcod, Morgan's Cod, Rockcod, Speckled Grouper, Trout.

Found singly, over mud and sand bottoms and in tide-pools, of estuaries, mangrove swamps, rocky reefs.
They feed on cephalopods, crustaceans and small fish.
Length - 234cm
Depth - 0-150m
Widespread Indo-Pacific

Groupers are solitary carnivores that hunt near the bottom usually at dusk. Food is drawn into their mouths by a powerful suction when they open their overly large mouths and then swallowed whole.
Spawning is seasonal and controlled by the moons phase. Ref: https://www.fishbase.se/summary/Epinephelus-malabaricus.html