page_title: Mycteroperca acutirostris
section_title: Fisheries
hierarchical_section_title: Mycteroperca acutirostris / Fisheries
caption_attribution_description: English: 1 – Serranus undulosus (=Mycteroperca acutirostris), 2 – Serranus merra (=Epinephelus merra), 3 – Serranus hexagonatus (=Epinephelus hexagonatus), 4 – Serranus maculatus (=Epinephelus maculatus).
context_page_description: Mycteroperca acutirostris the comb grouper, western comb grouper or wavy-lined grouper, is a species of grouper from the family Serranidae from the warmer waters of the western Atlantic Ocean.
context_section_description: This species is popular as a game fish where it occurs in Brazilian waters but this is not the case in the Gulf of Mexico. It is fished for as a food fish by subsistence fishermen in south eastern Brazil.
caption: Fishes of India. Atlas. Plate II - top
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