Golden Grouper, Mycteroperca rosacea: Golden phase Leopard Grouper caught during a fishing trip near La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico, by Phil Desautels, April 2000. Courtesy Jonathan Roldan Fishing Services. About 1-2 percent of the normally olive-brown leopard groupers change to this bright orange color. Photo courtesy Jonathan Roldan.
Golden Grouper, Mycteroperca rosacea: Don Naslund with a golden phase Leopard Grouper, or Golden Grouper caught in the Midriff Area, Sea of Cortez, Baja California, Mexico. Photo courtesy Don Naslund.
Golden Grouper, Mycteroperca rosacea: Bob Castellon with a Leopard Grouper showing an incomplete color phase change. Photo courtesy Gene Kira.
Leopard Grouper, Mycteroperca rosacea: Vagabundos del Mar President, Tony Schuck, with leopard grouper caugh while fishing t at the south end of Isla San Lorenzo, Sea of Cortez Midriff Islands, Baja California, Mexico. Photo courtesy Gene Kira.
Leopard Grouper, Mycteroperca rosacea: Jeff Klassen with a beauty caught from the surf at Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Photo courtesy Jeff Klassen.
Leopard Grouper, Mycteroperca rosacea: Caught during fishing at Punta Colorada, East Cape, Baja California Sur, Mexico, June 1999, length 26 inches, on a Rapala with 12-pound line, from a panga. Photo courtesy Peter Langstraat.
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