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Mycteroperca bonaci (Poey, 1860) 
AphiaID: 159231

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Serranidae (Family) > Epinephelinae (Subfamily) > Mycteroperca (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Mycteroperca Gill, 1863
Synonymised
taxa
  Bonaci arara Parra, 1787
Mycteroperca bonaci xanthosticta Jordan & Swain, 1885
Serranus arara (Parra, 1787)
Serranus bonaci Poey, 1860
Serranus brunneus Poey, 1860
Serranus cyclopomatus Poey, 1861
Serranus decimalis Poey, 1860
Serranus latepictus Poey, 1861
Trisotropis aguaji Poey, 1867
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 black grouper  [details]
Direct child
taxa

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Subspecies Mycteroperca bonaci xanthosticta Jordan & Swain, 1885 accepted as Mycteroperca bonaci (Poey, 1860)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Gulf of Mexico [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Host of  Lepeophtheirus dissimulatus Wilson C.B., 1905 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Lepeophtheirus curtus (Wilson C.B., 1913) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links To Barcode of Life (53 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (68 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To FishBase
To GenBank (58 nucleotides; 23 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To IUCN Red List
To ITIS
Notes  Distribution: Western Atlantic: Bermuda and Massachusetts, USA to southern Brazil; including the southern Gulf of Mexico, Florida Keys, Bahamas, Cuba and throughout the Caribbean. Adults are unknown from the northeastern coast of the USA.  [details]

Habitat: benthic [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159231
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). Mycteroperca bonaci (Poey, 1860). 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=159231 on 2013-05-23
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