Blacktip Grouper - Epinephelus fasciatus

The Blacktip Grouper - Epinephelus fasciatus is highly variable from pale to medium greenish gray, reddish yellow or brown scarlet, often with 5-6 dark bars of variable intensity, black tips on spinous dorsal fin.

This variation is dark reddiesh brown with dark body bars, top of head reddish brown with 2 pale bands across nape, black tips on dorsal fin spines.