Ancestor of the Datnoid!
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Catalog number :JNHM-PI-0000534
English nm : septemfasciatus
Scientific name: Epinephelus septemfasciatus
Species : septemfasciatus
Genus :Epinephelus
Family :Serranidae
Order : Perciformes
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Institution name : Folklore & Natural Museum Jeju Special Self-Governing Province
Ecology : The species inhabits off shore and rocky areas in deep sea. It can be fished. It is found in the south sea of Korea including Jeju, south of Hokkaido in Japan, South China Sea and the Indian Ocean.
Note :The body is long oval with high body depth. There are saw tooth-like spikes on the edge of the preoperaculum below which are one or two strong spikes. The groove between the spinous rays and soft rays is very shallow. It has 11 spinous rays with 13 to 16 soft rays. The anal fin has 3 spinous rays with 9 to 10 soft rays. The body has 7 deep blackish brown stripes from the front of spinous rays on the dorsal fin to the caudal peduncle on the brown surface. Among them, the second and fifth stripes stretch above the dorsal fin. When the fish grows over 50cm, the stripes become pale. There is a white rim at the tip of caudal fin. Its total length is about 90㎝.
English nm : septemfasciatus
Scientific name: Epinephelus septemfasciatus
Species : septemfasciatus
Genus :Epinephelus
Family :Serranidae
Order : Perciformes
Identified by :
Collector :
Day collected :
Locality :
Institution name : Folklore & Natural Museum Jeju Special Self-Governing Province
Ecology : The species inhabits off shore and rocky areas in deep sea. It can be fished. It is found in the south sea of Korea including Jeju, south of Hokkaido in Japan, South China Sea and the Indian Ocean.
Note :The body is long oval with high body depth. There are saw tooth-like spikes on the edge of the preoperaculum below which are one or two strong spikes. The groove between the spinous rays and soft rays is very shallow. It has 11 spinous rays with 13 to 16 soft rays. The anal fin has 3 spinous rays with 9 to 10 soft rays. The body has 7 deep blackish brown stripes from the front of spinous rays on the dorsal fin to the caudal peduncle on the brown surface. Among them, the second and fifth stripes stretch above the dorsal fin. When the fish grows over 50cm, the stripes become pale. There is a white rim at the tip of caudal fin. Its total length is about 90㎝.
That photo is a preserved specimen so It's stained by preservatives (alchohol, formalin etc)... wild coloration looks more like this-
BlackShark11k;4420288; said:
hate to bring up an old thread, but this looks more like the ancestor of a frontosa!