WoRMS taxon details
Epinephelus areolatus (Forsskål, 1775)
AphiaID: 218204
AphiaID: 218204
| 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 melanurus Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1817 Ephinephelus areolatus (Forsskål, 1775) (misspelling) Epinephelus angularis (Valenciennes, 1828) Epinephelus craspedurus Jordan & Richardson, 1910 Epinephelus waandersii (Bleeker, 1858) Perca areolata Forsskål, 1775 Serranus angularis Valenciennes, 1828 Serranus celebicus Bleeker, 1851 Serranus glaucus Day, 1871 Serranus waandersii Bleeker, 1858 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Anon. (1996). FishBase 96 [CD-ROM]. ICLARM: Los Baños, Philippines. 1 cd-rom pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] basis of record: Randall, J.E. (1992). Red Sea Reef Fishes. Immel Publishing. [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 | Djibouti [details] East Africa [details] Eritrea [details] Kenya [details] Mozambique [details] Red Sea [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] South Africa (country) [details] Tanzania [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (49 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (13 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase To GenBank (36 nucleotides; 53 proteins) To IUCN Red List To IUCN Red List To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Note |
Description: Usually found in seagrass beds or on fine sediment bottoms near rocky reefs, dead coral, or alcyonarians. At New Caledonia, the species was reported to feed on penaeid prawns. [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:218204 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Epinephelus areolatus (Forsskål, 1775). 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=218204 on 2013-05-19 | |||||||||||
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