WoRMS taxon details
Epinephelus tauvina (Forsskål, 1775)
AphiaID: 218205
AphiaID: 218205
| 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 tauvina (Forsskål, 1775) Epinephalus tauvina (Forsskål, 1775) (misspelling) Epinephelus chewa Morgans, 1966 Epinephelus elongatus Schultz, 1953 Holocentrus pantherinus Lacepède, 1802 Perca tauvina Forsskål, 1775 Serranus goldiei Macleay, 1882 Serranus jansenii Bleeker, 1857 Serranus pantherinus (Lacepède, 1802) | ||||||||||
| 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 | Cargados Carajos [details] Chagos [details] Comores [details] Djibouti [details] Eritrea [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mauritius [details] Mozambique [details] Red Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Reunion [details] Rodriguez [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] South Africa (country) [details] Tanzania [details] Ungama Bay [details] | ||||||||||
| Host of |
Lepeophtheirus kabatai Ho & Dojiri, 1977 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
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| Links | To Barcode of Life (11 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (60 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase To GenBank (25 nucleotides; 18 proteins) To IUCN Red List To IUCN Red List To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Note |
Description: Prefers clear water areas on coral reefs; juveniles have been taken from reef flats and in tidepools, adults found in deeper waters. Adults from Oceania almost exclusively feeds on fishes (holocentrids, mullid, and pomacentrid). Often confused with @E. coioides@@ and @E. malabaricus@@. [details] | ||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:218205 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Epinephelus tauvina (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=218205 on 2013-05-23 | |||||||||||
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