#2186 · 🐟 fish
Dusky Grouper
🇳🇱 Bruine tandbaars ·Epinephelus marginatus
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Billy Bensted-Smith · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Susanne Spindler · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 3. © Philippe Guillaume · CC BY 4.0
- 4. © Dennis Rabeling · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 5. © Susanne Spindler · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 6. © Glenn Biscop · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © Dennis Rabeling · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 8. © Bernat Garrigós · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © Gianfrs · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 10. © keryn_vdw · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Epinephelus marginatus , the dusky grouper , the yellowbelly rock cod or yellowbelly grouper , is the best known grouper of the Mediterranean Sea and North Africa coast.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 6,712 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Richard Thomas Lowe in 1834 (192 years ago).
- Listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
fact sheet
- English
- Dusky Grouper
- Nederlands
- Bruine tandbaars
- scientific name
- Epinephelus marginatus
- class
- Actinopterygii
- order
- Perciformes
- family
- Epinephelidae
- IUCN Red List
- VU · vulnerable
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 4,434
- sightings worldwide
- 6,712
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1834 by Richard Thomas Lowe
IUCN in Dutch: kwetsbaar. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Epinephelidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 100119, Wikidata Q192167, GBIF 2388507, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.