
Blacktip Grouper - Epinephelus fasciatus
The Blacktip Grouper - Epinephelus fasciatus can be highly variable from pale to medium gray, reddish yellow or borwn and scarlet; often with 5-6 dark bars of variable intensity, black tips on spinous dorsal fin.
In this picture, is the dark reddish with dark body bars variation, top of head reddish brown with 2 pale bands across nape, black tips on dorsal fin spines are not always present.

The blacktip grouper or redbanded grouper, "Epinephelus fasciatus", is a species of marine fish in the family Serranidae.
Similar species: Perch-like Fishes
By Albert Kang
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Uploaded Nov 29, 2016. Captured Nov 17, 2016 18:17 in Unnamed Road, 91308 Semporna, Sabah, Malaysia.