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black grouper

Bonaci \Bo`na*ci"\, n. [Amer. Sp. bonas['i], prob. from native name.] (Zo["o]l.)

  1. A large grouper ( Mycteroperca bonaci) of Florida and the West Indies, valuable as a food fish; -- called also aguaji and, in Florida, black grouper.

  2. Also, any one of several other similar fishes. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] ||

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Black grouper

The black grouper (Mycteroperca bonaci) is one of the best known of the large group of perciform fish called groupers. Other common names include black rockfish, bonaeci arara, and marbled rockfish. Other fish are sometimes called the black grouper including the similar gag grouper (Mycteroperca microlepis), the misty grouper (Epinephelus mystacinus), and the critically endangered Warsaw grouper (Epinephelus nigritus).

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Despite price stabilization supports and general inflation the price per pound of all the major fish types, even the prized black grouper and red snapper, had been going consistently down.