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Ara (Niphon spinosus) - Takeshima Aquarium

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A large relative of the grouper, found along rocky reefs of the Japanese and Philippine coasts.
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No longer considered an especially close relative of groupers (genetic phylogeny papers have placed this species closer to the freshwater perches of Percidae than to groupers), this species is now placed in the monospecific family Niphonidae.
 

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