Florent's Guide To The

Tropical Reefs

Yellow-Edged Lyretail
Variola louti
Yellow-Edged Lyretail
Also known as: Yellowedge Coronation Trout, Lyretail grouper
Category: Groupers
Scientific Name: Variola louti
Size: Up to 2.5 ft. (81 cm)  
Depth: 6-600 ft. (2-180 m)
Distribution: Indo-Pacific, Australia, French Polynesia
Chordata (Phylum) Chordates
└Vertebrata (Subphylum) Vertebrates
 └Osteichthyes (Parvphylum) Bony Fishes
  └Actinopterygii (Gigaclass) Ray-Finned Fish
   └Teleostei (Class) Teleosts
    └Perciformes (Order)
     └Percoidei (Suborder)
      └Epinephelidae (Family) Groupers
       └Variola (Genus)
        └V. louti (Species)
WoRMS ID: 218304🔗
iNaturalist ID: 114930🔗

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