Epinephelus fasciatus (Forsskål, 1775) – Blacktip grouper

Epinephelus fasciatus: Falcón et al., 2018: 41-42, 55 (GC).

Epinephelus fasciatus: Báez et al., 2019: suppl. tab. (C) (as to be confirmed).

An Indo-Pacific warm-affinity species, ranging from the Red Sea to Port Alfred, South Africa in the west, and throughout the western and central Pacific (Craig et al., 2011; Froese and Pauly, 2020).

It is a single-record non-native species in the Canaries, from where it has been recently first recorded based on a 30 cm TL adult caught in June 2018 close to the Port of Las Palmas, Gran Canaria (Falcón et al., 2018).