WoRMS taxon details
Epinephelus flavocaeruleus (Lacepède, 1802)
AphiaID: 218203
AphiaID: 218203
| 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 |
Bodianus macrocephalus Lacepède, 1802 Cynichthys flavopurpuratus (Bennett, 1830) (misspelling) Epinephelus flavo-caeruleus (Lacepède, 1802) Epinephelus flavocoeruleus (Lacepède, 1802) (misspelling) Holocentrus caerulescens Shaw, 1803 Holocentrus flavocaeruleus Lacepède, 1802 Holocentrus gymnosus Lacepède, 1802 Perca flavopurpurea Bennett, 1830 Serranus borbonicus Quoy & Gaimard, 1824 Serranus borbonius Quoy & Gaimard, 1824 (misspelling) Serranus flavocaeruleus (Lacepède, 1802) Serranus flavocoeruleus (Lacepède, 1802) (misspelling) | ||||||||||
| 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 | Cargados Carajos [details] Chagos [details] Comores [details] Djibouti [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mauritius [details] Mozambique [details] Reunion [details] Rodriguez [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] South Africa (country) [details] Tanzania [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (14 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase To GenBank (14 nucleotides; 10 proteins) To IUCN Red List To IUCN Red List To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Note |
Description: Juveniles inhabit shallow reefs while adults are found on deeper reefs, to depths of 150 m. Feeds on a variety of fishes, crabs, shrimps, spiny lobsters, squids, and small octopuses. Also caught with spear. [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:218203 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Epinephelus flavocaeruleus (Lacepède, 1802). 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=218203 on 2013-05-22 | |||||||||||
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