Genus Epinephelus Bloch (76 species)

Type species: Epinephelus marginalis Bloch (¼ E. fasciatus [Forsskål] designated under the plenary powers of the ICZN Opinion 93).

Type locality: Red Sea.

Included species:

E. adscensionis (Osbeck, 1765)

E. aeneus (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1817)

E. akaara (Temminck & Schlegel, 1842)

E. altivelis (Valenciennes, 1828) (formerly Cromileptes)

E. amblycephalus (Bleeker, 1857)

E. analogus Gill, 1863

E. areolatus (Forsskål, 1775)

E. awoara (Temminck & Schlegel, 1842)

E. bilobatus Randall & Allen, 1987

E. bleekeri (Vaillant, 1878)

E. bontoides (Bleeker, 1855)

E. bruneus Bloch, 1793

E. chlorostigma (Valenciennes, 1828)

E. clippertonensis Allen & Robertson, 1999

E. coeruleopunctatus (Bloch, 1790)

E. coioides (Hamilton, 1822)

E. corallicola (Valenciennes, 1828)

E. cyanopodus (Richardson, 1846)

E. daemelii (Günther, 1876)

E. diacanthus (Valenciennes, 1828)

E. erythrurus (Valenciennes, 1828)

E. fasciatomaculosus (Peters, 1865)

E. fasciatus (Forsskål, 1775)

E. faveatus (Valenciennes, 1828)

E. flavocaeruleus (Lacepède, 1802)

E. fuscoguttatus (Forsskål, 1775)

E. gabriellae Randall & Heemstra, 1991

E. geoffroyi (Klunzinger, 1870)

E. guttatus (Linnaeus, 1758)

E. hexagonatus (Forster, 1801)

E. howlandi (Günther, 1873)

E. kupangensis Tucker, Kurniasih and Craig, 2016

E. irroratus (Forster, 1801)

E. itajara (Lichtenstein, 1822)

E. labriformis (Jenyns, 1840)

E. lanceolatus (Bloch, 1790)

E. latifasciatus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1842)

E. leucogrammicus (Valenciennes, 1828) (formerly Anyperodon)

E. longispinis (Kner, 1864) E. macrospilos (Bleeker, 1855)

E. maculatus (Bloch, 1790)

E. magniscuttis Postel, Fourmanoir & Gueze, 1963 E. malabaricus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) E. melanostigma Schultz, 1953

E. merra Bloch, 1793

E. miliaris (Valenciennes, 1830)

E. moara (Temminck & Schlegel, 1842)

E. morio (Valenciennes, 1828)

E. multinotatus (Peters, 1876)

E. ongus (Bloch, 1790)

E. polylepis Randall & Heemstra, 1991 E. polyphekadion (Bleeker, 1849)

E. polystigma (Bleeker, 1853)

E. quinquefasciatus (Bocourt, 1868)

E. quoyanus (Valenciennes, 1830)

E. retouti Bleeker, 1868

E. rivulatus (Valenciennes, 1830)

E. sexfasciatus (Valenciennes, 1828)

E. socialis (Günther, 1873)

E. spilotoceps Schultz, 1953

E. stictus Randall & Allen, 1987

E. stoliczkae (Day, 1875)

E. striatus (Bloch, 1792)

E. summana (Forsskål, 1775)

E. tauvina (Forsskal, 1775)

E. trimaculatus (Valenciennes, 1828) E. tuamotuensis Fourmanoir, 1971

E. tukula Morgans, 1959

E. undulatostriatus (Peters, 1866)

E. undulosus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824)

Species incertae sedis:

E. chlorocephalus * (Valenciennes, 1830) E. indistinctus* Randall & Heemstra, 1991 E. lebretonianus* (Hombron & Jacquinot, 1853) E. suborbitalis* Amaoka & Randall, 1990 E. timorensis Randall & Allen, 1987

E. trophis* Randall & Allen, 1987