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Epinephelus striatus (Bloch, 1792) 
AphiaID: 159222

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Serranidae (Family) > Epinephelinae (Subfamily) > Epinephelus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Epinephelus Bloch, 1793
Synonymised
taxa
  Anthias cherna Bloch & Schneider, 1801
Anthias striatus Bloch, 1792
Serranus gymnopareius Valenciennes, 1828
Serranus striatus (Bloch, 1792)
Sparus chrysomelas Lacepède, 1802
Sources  basis of record: Fishbase, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details]

basis of record: Robins, C.R., G.C. Ray, J. Douglass and R. Freund. 1986. A field guide to Atlantic coast fishes of North America. Houghton Mifflin Co. Boston. 354 p. [details]

additional source: FishBase, version december 2007, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details]

additional source: FishBase, version may 2009 [details]

additional source: McEachran, J. D. 2009. Fishes (Vertebrata: Pisces) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 1223–1316 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]

additional source: FishBase, version october 2012 [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English Nassau grouper  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Gulf of Mexico [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Host of  Lepeophtheirus dissimulatus Wilson C.B., 1905 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links To Barcode of Life (10 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (109 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To FishBase
To GenBank (23 nucleotides; 4 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To IUCN Red List
To ITIS
Notes  Distribution: Western Atlantic: Bermuda, Florida, Bahamas, Yucatan Peninsula and throughout the Caribbean to southern Brazil. Not known from the Gulf of Mexico except at the Campeche Bank off the coast of Yucatan, at Tortugas and off Key West.  [details]

Habitat: nektonic [details]
Images 
Epinephelus striatus
Epinephelus striatus
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Epinephelus striatus
Epinephelus striatus
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Epinephelus striatus
Epinephelus striatus
added on 2010-06-10 - author: Collection VLIZ
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159222
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-05-27 09:47:05Z  created  Appeltans, Ward
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z  changed  Bailly, Nicolas
  
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  Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Epinephelus striatus (Bloch, 1792). In: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2013) FishBase. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159222 on 2013-05-21
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