WoRMS taxon details
Epinephelus morrhua (Valenciennes, 1833)
AphiaID: 218201
AphiaID: 218201
| 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 |
Cephalopholis morrhua (Valenciennes, 1833) Epinephelus cometae Tanaka, 1927 Serranus morrhua Valenciennes, 1833 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Anon. (1996). FishBase 96 [CD-ROM]. ICLARM: Los Baños, Philippines. 1 cd-rom pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: FishBase, version december 2007, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details] additional source: FishBase, version may 2009 [details] additional source: FishBase, version october 2012 [details] | ||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra [details] Chagos [details] Comores [details] Djibouti [details] Eritrea [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mauritius [details] Mozambique [details] Red Sea [details] Reunion [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] South Africa (country) [details] Tanzania [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (15 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (14 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase To GenBank (18 nucleotides; 14 proteins) To IUCN Red List To IUCN Red List To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Note |
Description: Known to be ciguatoxic at Mauritius. Considered rare in Tahiti but quite common in atolls (Ref. 4821). The species is easily confused with @E. poecilonotus@, @E. radiatus@, or @E. tuamotuensis@, three closely related deep-water groupers. [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:218201 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Epinephelus morrhua (Valenciennes, 1833). 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=218201 on 2013-05-25 | |||||||||||
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