Mycteroperca tigris (Valenciennes, 1833)

– Tiger grouper

Mycteroperca tigris: Falcón et al., 2018: 41, 55 (GC); Báez et al., 2019: suppl. tab. (C) (as to be confirmed).

A western Atlantic warm-affinity species, occurring from southern Florida and Flower Garden Banks off Texas, the Gulf of Mexico, the Bahamas, Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica, Venezuela, and throughout the Caribbean to Brazil (Craig et al., 2011; Froese and Pauly, 2020).

It is a very rare non-native species in the Canary Islands, recently first recorded there based on a 50 cm TL adult caught at the Port of Las Palmas, Gran Canaria in February 2018 (Falcón et al., 2018). However, the record of this species in the Canaries should be considered, for now, as doubtful (see Discussion).