Also known as Sea Bass, Rockcods, Cods, Hinds, Trouts, Speckle-fin Grouper, Speckled-fin Rockcod, Speckle-finned Rockcod, White-speckled Grouper, White-speckled Rockcod, White-streaked Grouper, Honeycomb Rockcod, Lace-finned Rockcod, Wavy-lined Grouper, Wavy-lined Rockcod and Wire-netting Rockcod.
Found singly in sheltered caves and under ledges of lagoons and inner reefs.
They feed on small fish and crustaceans.
Length - 35cm
Depth - 5-60m
Widespread Indo-West 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.
Dauin, Dumaguete, Phiippines