Epinephelus marginatus
דקר הסלעים
Size range: 0.3-1 m
Common size: 0.45 (from personal experience)
Habitat:
- Hard - Adults prefer rocky bottoms especially with cavities and shelters. Juveniles are found closer to shore in rocky tidal pools
Depth range: 10 - 50 m
* juveniles can be found in shallower depths (personal exp)
Water column position:
- Benthic
- Supra-benthic
Colors & patterns:
- head and body dark reddish brown or greyish dorsally, usually yellowish gold ventrally; irregular white, pale greenish yellow or silvery grey blotches usually visible on the body and head and mostly arranged in vertical series; more or less distinct black maxillary streak; dark brown median fins; distal edge of anal and caudal fins, often also pectoral fins, narrowly white; pelvic fins blackish distally; pectoral fins dark reddish brown or grey; margin of spinous dorsal fin and basal part of the paired fins often golden yellow
- sometimes appears dark except from 3 yellow spots under the dorsal fins.
- can also be completely dark or pale
- males during spawning season- may have silvery streaked pattern.
- Whether the species is:
- Reef-associated - related to sites it inhabits
2. Activity: (?)
- Diurnal
3. Approach:
- Indifferent
- Easily approached
- Bold
Schooling characteristics:
- Solitary
Native/Exotic:
EM notes: description of special east Mediterranean characteristics.
