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<emphasis id="B912BF478B03376287ADF96E4DD5736E" bold="true" box="[151,419,1282,1308]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="527">Epinephelus geoffroyi</emphasis>
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(
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&amp; B, 2B, 3, 4, 5, 6A &amp; B;
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)
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<emphasis id="B912BF478B03376287ADF9024D3373F1" box="[151,325,1390,1411]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="527">Serranus tauvina</emphasis>
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(
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Forsskål) Geoffroy St. Hilaire,
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: 317, pl. 20, fig. 1 (Suez,
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, Red Sea).
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<emphasis id="B912BF478B03376287ADF9E04D2173D0" box="[151,343,1420,1442]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="527">Serranus areolatus</emphasis>
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(
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Forsskål) Valenciennes in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1828: 350.
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(
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Forsskål) Günther, 1859: 149.
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<emphasis id="B912BF478B03376287ADF9A64D2573AD" box="[151,339,1481,1503]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="527">Serranus geoffroyi</emphasis>
Klunzinger, 1870: 675
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locality, Red Sea).
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<emphasis id="B912BF478B03376287ADF9844D21738F" box="[151,343,1511,1533]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="527">Serranus celebicus</emphasis>
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var.
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Kossmann and Räuber, 1877: 6
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(
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locality, Red Sea).
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<emphasis id="B912BF478B03376287ADFA6B4D8F706E" box="[151,505,1542,1564]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="527">Serranus (Hyposerranus) geoffroyi</emphasis>
Klunzinger, 1884: 3
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(Red Sea).
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<emphasis id="B912BF478B03376287ADFA4A4D137049" box="[151,357,1573,1595]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="527">Serranus assabensis</emphasis>
Giglioli, 1888: 68
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(
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locality, Assab,
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<emphasis id="B912BF478B03376287ADFA0B4D6770F2" bold="true" box="[151,273,1639,1664]" pageId="3" pageNumber="527">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
Dorsal rays XI,1618 (usually 17); pectoral rays 17 or 18; lateral-line scales usually 4952; gill rakers 2529; caudal fin slightly emarginate; membranes of spinous portion of dorsal fin slightly incised; third or fourth dorsal spines longest,
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head length; soft portion of anal fin distinctly angular, the third or fourth ray longest,
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head length; head, body, and fins whitish with numerous, small, close-set, dark brown spots, becoming more widely spaced on abdomen and chest; posterior margin of caudal fin without a narrow, clear whitish margin.
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Dorsal rays XI,1618 [XI,17] (strongly modal 17); anal rays III,8 [III,8]; pectoral rays 17 or 18 [17]; lateral-line scales 4852 [51]; longitudinal scale series 96113 [112]; scales on body ctenoid; auxiliary scales present; gill rakers 2529 [28]; vertebrae 10 + 24; second supraneural (predorsal) bone small and distinctly curved; body depth 2.93.3 [3.2] in SL; head pointed, the lower jaw strongly projecting; dorsal profile of head to nape straight; head length 2.452.6 [2.6] in SL; middle opercular spine nearer lower than upper spine; snout length 3.5 4.0 in head length [4.0]; interorbital space slightly convex, the least width 5.76.8 [6.8] in head length; eye diameter ranging from
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head length in a 117-mm specimen to
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a 406-mm specimen) [5.2]; maxilla extending to a vertical from slightly anterior to slightly posterior to rear edge or orbit; caudal-peduncle depth 3.1 3.3 [3.3] in head length; opercular flap moderately pointed; rounded corner of preopercle with 47 [4] enlarged serrate; interopercle and subopercle partially serrate; caudal fin slightly emarginate to truncate, 1.61.8 [1.8] in head length; spinous portion of dorsal fin slightly incised; third or fourth [3rd] dorsal spines longest, 2.53.2 [2.5] in head length; soft portion of anal fin distinctly angular, the third or fourth [4th] ray longest, 1.82.7 [2.2] in head length; pectoral fins 1.751.95 [1.92] in head length; pelvic fins usually not reaching anus, 1.952.4 [2.0] in head length; dorsal, anal, and pelvic fins relatively shorter with growth; head, body, and fins whitish with numerous, small, close-set, dark brown spots, becoming more widely spaced on chest and abdomen; posterior margin of caudal fin narrowly pale, but containing a single row of small dark spots.
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<emphasis id="B912BF478B04376587ADF97D4D647355" bold="true" box="[151,274,1297,1320]" pageId="4" pageNumber="528">FIGURE 3.</emphasis>
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, Gulf of Aqaba. Photo R.C. Steene.
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<emphasis id="B912BF478B04376587FDF93E4D167319" bold="true" box="[199,352,1362,1387]" pageId="4" pageNumber="528">Distribution.</emphasis>
Throughout the Red Sea and the western Gulf of Aden.
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<emphasis id="B912BF478B04376587FDF91B4D4D73FD" bold="true" box="[199,315,1399,1423]" pageId="4" pageNumber="528">Remarks.</emphasis>
The first author examined a Klunzinger specimen of
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<emphasis id="B912BF478B0437658482F91B48FA73FC" box="[952,1164,1398,1422]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="528">Serranus geoffroyi</emphasis>
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at the Naturhistorishes Museum in Vienna, NMW
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SL, identified as a
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. The meristic data, including 28 gill rakers, are concordant with those given here for the species, and the anal fin was noted as very pointed, the longest anal ray
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head length (
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). He reported that there are no other
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at the museum. The locality given for the specimen is only Red Sea. However, it is likely that it is Al Quseir (Kosseir),
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, where Klunzinger obtained his specimens. The
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status is therefore very questionable because the specimen was probably collected by Klunzinger during his second stay in Al Quseir in
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, and would have only been available for the Klunzinger (1884) publication, not 1870. Klunzinger's (1870) footnote is certainly based on the specimen collected by W. Griessinger at Port Safaga (
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,
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) in
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(SMNS 233); this would have been the only specimen of the species present at the SMNS in 1870. It was missed in the SMNS
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catalogs by Fricke (1992, 2005), but was recently rediscovered by the fifth author in the collection. It has 28 gill rakers and a very pointed anal fin, the longest ray
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head length. We conclude that this specimen (SMNS
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SL) is the
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of
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<emphasis id="B912BF478B0437658624FB4B4D98714C" box="[286,494,1830,1854]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="528">Serranus geoffroyi</emphasis>
Klunzinger, 1870
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; it is illustrated here as
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B.
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<emphasis id="B912BF478B04376587FDFB264D1B7111" bold="true" box="[199,365,1866,1891]" pageId="4" pageNumber="528">Comparisons.</emphasis>
In addition to having modally two more gill rakers,
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<emphasis id="B912BF478B0437658489FB2648DE7110" box="[947,1192,1866,1890]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="528">Epinephelus geoffroyi</emphasis>
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may be distinguished from
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<emphasis id="B912BF478B04376587EFFB1C4DFF71F4" box="[213,393,1902,1927]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="528">E. chlorostigma</emphasis>
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by the more acutely pointed soft portion of the anal fin, and in color. The dark spots on the abdomen and chest are more widely spaced. The caudal fin of
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<emphasis id="B912BF478B043765846DFBFF487C71D8" box="[855,1034,1938,1962]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="528">E. chlorostigma</emphasis>
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has a narrow pale whitish posterior margin. The posterior margin of the caudal fin of
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<emphasis id="B912BF478B04376585F4FBD44F2471BC" box="[718,850,1974,1999]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="528">E. geoffroyi</emphasis>
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is not white but it may be whitish, in which case it contains a vertical row of small dark brown spots or transverse lines.
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<emphasis id="B912BF478B05376487ADF8F94D6072D9" bold="true" box="[151,278,1173,1196]" pageId="5" pageNumber="529">FIGURE 4.</emphasis>
A: Former syntypes of
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<emphasis id="B912BF478B0537648523F8FA4E8D72DE" box="[537,763,1174,1196]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="529">Epinephelus geoffroyi</emphasis>
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, NMW 39276, 321 mm SL, Red Sea. Photo H. Wellendorf. B: Holotype of
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<emphasis id="B912BF478B053764862DF8D94D8272B9" box="[279,500,1205,1227]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="529">Epinephelus geoffroyi</emphasis>
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, SMNS 233, 191 mm SL, Port Safaqa, Egypt, Red Sea. Photo R. Fricke.
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<emphasis id="B912BF478B05376487ADFA984D647178" bold="true" box="[151,274,1780,1803]" pageId="5" pageNumber="529">FIGURE 5.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B912BF478B0537648623FA984E577178" box="[281,545,1780,1802]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="529">Epinephelus chlorostigma</emphasis>
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, IES 2311-011, 235 mm SL, Gulf of Tadjoura. Photo J.M. Rose.
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<emphasis id="B912BF478B05376487FDFB5B4DB7713D" box="[199,449,1847,1871]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="529">Epinephelus geoffroyi</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="B912BF478B053764853AFB544EC1713D" box="[512,695,1847,1871]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="529">E. chlorostigma</emphasis>
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are sympatric in the western Gulf of Aden. The fourth author collected a specimen of
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<emphasis id="B912BF478B0537648699FB304E507101" box="[419,550,1883,1907]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="529">E. geoffroyi</emphasis>
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in the harbor of
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in 1981 and sent it to the first author, thinking it might be an undescribed species. It was wrongly catalogued at the Bishop Museum as
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<emphasis id="B912BF478B0537648308FBEC489371E5" box="[1074,1253,1919,1943]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="529">E. chlorostigma</emphasis>
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(BPBM
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). The fourth author also caught the true
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in 1979 by hook and line from a depth of at least
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in the Gulf of Tadjoura (IES 311-011,
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, illustrated here as
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). In addition, he collected a specimen of
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<emphasis id="B912BF478B063767861FFCF54DDE76C2" box="[293,424,152,176]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="530">E. geoffroyi</emphasis>
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off Al Mukallah on the coast
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in 2005, the present easternmost record of the species in the Gulf of Aden. There are no valid records of
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<emphasis id="B912BF478B06376785DCFCD0487B76A6" box="[742,1037,188,212]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="530">Epinephelus chlorostigma</emphasis>
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from the Red Sea, but it might be expected in the deeper water of the southern part.
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noted by Randall and Heemstra (1991), most records of
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<emphasis id="B912BF478B0637678458FD6848F0776E" box="[866,1158,260,284]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="530">Epinephelus chlorostigma</emphasis>
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are insular. There are no confirmed records for continental waters of Asia or
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, and none for the East Indies, except one from
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.
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<paragraph id="8BD963558B06376787FDFD1C4FFD7786" blockId="6.[151,1436,151,644]" pageId="6" pageNumber="530">
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<emphasis id="B912BF478B06376787FDFD1C4DCA77FA" box="[199,444,368,392]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="530">Epinephelus geoffroyi</emphasis>
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is usually found on or near coral reefs at depths of
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; one was speared by the first author in
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in the Gulf of Suez, and another near the southern end of the east coast of the Sinai Peninsula in
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The second author observed the species at the Farasan Islands near the southern end of the Red Sea in
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3
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. The depth range given in the literature for
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is
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Randall and Heemstra (1991: 119) reported slightly higher scale counts for
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<emphasis id="B912BF478B063767830BFE6C492E746A" box="[1073,1368,512,536]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="530">Epinephelus chlorostigma</emphasis>
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in
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examined in the Pacific, compared to the Indian Ocean: 5053 lateral-line scales vs. 4852, and 104 125 scales in longitudinal series vs. 97119. A molecular study of these two populations would be of interest, as well as a genetic comparison with
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<emphasis id="B912BF478B0637678520FE014EEB74F6" box="[538,669,620,644]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="530">E. geoffroyi</emphasis>
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.
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<emphasis id="B912BF478B06376787ADFBBB4D64719E" bold="true" box="[151,274,2007,2030]" pageId="6" pageNumber="530">FIGURE 6.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B912BF478B0637678623FBBB4D81719F" box="[281,503,2007,2029]" italics="true" pageId="6" pageNumber="530">Epinephelus geoffroyi</emphasis>
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. A: Ras Mohammaed, Sinai Peninsula. B: Farasan Archipelago. Photos S.V. Bogorodsky.
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<paragraph id="8BD963558B07376687FDFCFB4DE6774D" blockId="7.[151,1436,151,535]" pageId="7" pageNumber="531">
The second authors underwater photographs of
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<emphasis id="B912BF478B07376685D2FCF44FA876C2" box="[744,990,152,176]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="531">Epinephelus geoffroyi</emphasis>
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(
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A taken in the northern Red Sea and
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B at the Farasan Islands near the southern end) in the typical habitat of sand or sand and rubble substratum near coral patches, exhibit a camouflage color pattern of large irregular dark brown blotches on the body and dorsal and anal fins. He noted that
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<emphasis id="B912BF478B07376685B6FD694F62776E" box="[652,788,260,284]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="531">E. areolatus</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="B912BF478B0737668471FD694FB8776E" box="[843,974,260,284]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="531">E. geoffroyi</emphasis>
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are the most common groupers observed at the Farasan Islands.
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Mention should be made of two other groupers of the northwestern Indian Ocean with close-set, dark brown spots that might be confused with
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<emphasis id="B912BF478B0737668514FD1C4F5177FA" box="[558,807,368,392]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="531">Epinephelus geoffroyi</emphasis>
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:
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<emphasis id="B912BF478B0737668400FD1D4FA677FA" box="[826,976,368,392]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="531">E. gabriellae</emphasis>
Randall and Heemstra, 1991
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(
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A) ranges from the Gulf of
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and south coast of
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at least to the eastern Gulf of Aden, and
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<emphasis id="B912BF478B073766822EFDF949EA77DE" box="[1300,1436,404,428]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="531">E. polylepis</emphasis>
Randall and Heemstra, 1991
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(
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B) is reported from the west coast of
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to the Gulf of Aden.
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<emphasis id="B912BF478B073766822BFDD44D7C7786" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="531">Epinephelus gabriellae</emphasis>
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is readily distinguished by having only 14 or 15 dorsal soft rays, and
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<emphasis id="B912BF478B0737668335FDB148DE7786" box="[1039,1192,476,500]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="531">E. polystigma</emphasis>
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has a very high count of 6572 lateral-line scales, and 126137 scales in longitudinal series.
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