Epinephelus quinquefasciatus (Bocourt, 1868)

Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, Zootaxa 5053 (1), pp. 1-285 : 146

Epinephelus quinquefasciatus (Bocourt, 1868) .

Pacific Goliath Grouper or Jewfish. To 250 cm (98.4 in) TL ( Robertson and Allen 2002). Bahía Almejas (24°22’N, 111°42’W), southern Baja California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) and Gulf of California (Heemstra in Fischer et al. 1995) to Máncora, Peru ( Chirichigno and Vélez 1998). Depth: intertidal to 100 m (328 ft) (min.: Personal Communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Craig et al. 2011). Also found in fresh water ( Greenfield and Thomerson 1997). Previously considered Epinephelus itajara (Lichtenstein 1822) , now known to be a species limited to the Atlantic Ocean ( Craig et al. 2009).