English: Scamp, Brown Grouper, Broomtail Grouper
Spanish: Abadejo
Color light gray or brown; large adults with elongated caudal-fin rays; reddish-brown spots on sides that tend to be grouped into lines; some yellow around corners of mouth.
Commonly, the scamp is 30.0 cm long with which makes it a relatively small member of the groupers but a specimen has been reported at 107 cm.