Title: Saltwater
Species #: 45
Common Name: Scamp Grouper Scientific Name: Mycteroperca phenax Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Serranidae
Geography/Habitat: This fish is found around reefs, debris, and wrecks, and they are mainly found in water ranging from 40 to 150 feet of water.
Life Strategy: They range in size from 5-15 lbs. They have light gray of brown spots on the sides of the body. When it spawns in late spring it undergoes sex transformation from female to male as it becomes older.
Food/Feed Strategy: It has a wide variety of food it eats mainly pinfish, cigar minnows, croakers, grunt, and squirrelfish.
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