Author: (Valenciennes, 1833)
FBname: Tiger grouper
Comments: A solitary species (Ref. 26340) occurring in coral reefs and rocky areas.  It is considered an ambush predator that hides among the coral and sponges and is easy to approach.  Frequents cleaning stations (Ref. 9710).  The size versus sex distribution of Bermuda population indicates that this species is a protogynous hermaphrodite; all fish less than 37 cm TL  were females and all fish larger than 45 cm TL were males (Ref. 6886).  Randall (Ref. 33) reported food of 59 specimens 15 to 57 cm SL were purely fishes of a variety of species.