Florent's Guide To The

Tropical Reefs

Potato Cod
Epinephelus tukula
Potato Cod
Also known as: Potato Grouper
Category: Groupers
Scientific Name: Epinephelus tukula
Size: Up to 6.5 ft. (200 cm)  
Depth: 15-400 ft. (5-120 m)
Distribution: Great Barrier Reef, Red Sea, Madagascar
Chordata (Phylum)
└Vertebrata (Subphylum)
 └Osteichthyes (Parvphylum)
  └Actinopterygii (Gigaclass)
   └Actinopteri (Superclass)
    └Teleostei (Class)
     └Perciformes (Order)
      └Percoidei (Suborder)
       └Epinephelidae (Family)
        └Epinephelus (Genus)
         └E. tukula (Species)

Groupers & Seabasses
Groupers

Potato Cod

Masked grouper

Candy Basslet

Peppermint Basslet

Black Grouper

Yellowmouth Grouper

Leopard Grouper

Tiger Grouper

Yellowfin Grouper

Yellowfin Grouper (Young Adult)

Atlantic Creolefish

Blacksaddled Coral Grouper

Blacksaddled Coral Grouper (Dark Variation)

Highfin Coral Grouper

Yellow-Edged Lyretail

Slender Grouper

Peacock Grouper

Pacific creolefish

Graysby

Bluespotted Grouper

Coney

Coney (Bicolor Variation)

Coney (Golden Variation)

Leopard Hind

Coral Grouper

Panama Graysby

Harlequin Grouper

Six-Banded Grouper

Tomato Grouper

Strawberry Grouper

Flagtail Grouper

Humpback Grouper (Juvenile)

Humpback Grouper

Blacktip Grouper

Brown-Marbled Grouper

Red Hind

Hexagon Grouper

Goliath Grouper

Starry Grouper

Honeycomb Grouper

Specklefin Grouper (Juvenile)

Specklefin Grouper

Camouflage Grouper

Nassau Grouper



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