The white grouper is found in the subtropical eastern Atlantic Ocean and the southern Mediterranean Sea.

[4] The overall colour is greenish bronze with darker fins which are brownish purple and have white or pale margins.

[1] There is a history of vagrancy in this species and the synonym Perca robusta was based on a specimen taken in Cornwall in southwestern England.

[1] This is a carnivorous species and off West Africa it was found that 58% of their diet is made up of fishes, 21% of stomatopods, 10% of crabs and 10% of cephalopods.

[1] The white grouper was first formally described in 1817 as Serranus aeneus by the French naturalist Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772-1844) with the type locality given as Egypt.

[5] The white grouper is a very important quarry species for fisheries throughout its range, fishermen use hook-and-line and trawls to catch it.