Editing Grouper (section)

{{Short description|Subfamily of fishes}}
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| image = Baltimore Aquarium - Mycteroperca microlepis - 05.jpg
| image_caption = [[Mycteroperca microlepis|Gag grouper]], ''Mycteroperca microlepis''
| taxon = Epinephelidae
| authority = [[Pieter Bleeker|Bleeker]], 1874<ref name = VDLEF>{{cite journal | author1 = Richard van der Laan | author2 = William N. Eschmeyer | author3 = Ronald Fricke | name-list-style = amp |year=2014 | title = Family-group names of Recent fishes | url = https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.3882.1.1/10480 | journal = Zootaxa | volume = 3882 | issue =2 | pages = 001–230| doi = 10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1 | pmid = 25543675 | doi-access = free }}</ref>
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'''Groupers''' are a diverse group of marine [[Actinopterygii|ray-finned fish]] in the family '''Epinephelidae''', in the order [[Perciformes]].<ref name="CofFF">{{Cof family|family=Epinephelidae|access-date=22 April 2025}}</ref>

Groupers were long considered a [[subfamily]] of the seabasses in [[Serranidae]], but are now treated as distinct. Not all members of this family are called "groupers". The common name "grouper" is usually given to fish in one of two large [[genus|genera]]: ''[[Epinephelus]]'' and ''[[Mycteroperca]]''. In addition, the species classified in the small genera ''Anyperidon'', ''Cromileptes'', ''Dermatolepis'', ''Graciela'', ''Saloptia'', and ''Triso'' are also called "groupers". Fish in the genus ''[[Plectropomus]]'' are referred to as "coral groupers". These genera are all classified in the subfamily Epiphelinae. However, some of the hamlets (genus ''Alphestes''), the hinds (genus ''Cephalopholis''), the [[yellow-edged lyretail|lyretails]] (genus ''Variola''), and some other small genera (''Gonioplectrus'', ''Niphon'', ''Paranthias'') are also in this subfamily, and occasional species in other serranid genera have common names involving the word "grouper". Nonetheless, the word "grouper" on its own is usually taken as meaning the family Epinephelidae.