WoRMS taxon details
Epinephelus malabaricus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
AphiaID: 218206
AphiaID: 218206
| 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 malabaricus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) Epinephelus cylindricus Postel, 1965 Epinephelus malabrica (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) (misspelling) Epinephelus salmoides (Lacepède, 1802) Epinephelus salmonoides (Valenciennes, 1828) Holocentrus malabaricus Bloch & Schneider, 1801 Holocentrus salmoides Lacepède, 1802 Serranus crapao Cuvier, 1829 Serranus estuarius Macleay, 1883 Serranus polypodophilus Bleeker, 1849 Serranus salmonoides Valenciennes, 1828 (misspelling) Serranus semi-punctatus Valenciennes, 1828 (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: Randall, J.E. (1992). Red Sea Reef Fishes. Immel Publishing. [details] additional source: Streftaris, N.; Zenetos, A.; Papathanassiou, E. (2005). Globalisation in marine ecosystems: the story of non-indigenous marine species across European seas. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Ann. Rev. 43: 419-453 (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] | ||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| Environment | marine, brackish, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Comores [details] Djibouti [details] East Africa [details] Eritrea [details] Israeli part of the Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mauritius [details] Mediterranean Sea [details] Mozambique [details] Red Sea [details] Reunion [details] Rodriguez [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] South Africa (country) [details] Tanzania [details] | ||||||||||
| Host of |
Caligus acanthopagri Lin, Ho & Chen, 1994 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Caligus epidemicus Hewitt, 1971 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Caligus orientalis Gusev, 1951 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Caligus punctatus Shiino, 1955 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Caligus rotundigenitalis Yü, 1933 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Ergasilus borneoensis Yamaguti, 1954 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Ergasilus lobus Lin & Ho, 1998 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) | ||||||||||
| Links | Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe (DAISIE) To Barcode of Life (23 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (11 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase To GenBank (66 nucleotides; 30 proteins) To IUCN Red List To IUCN Red List To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Note |
Description: A common species found in a variety of habitats: coral and rocky reefs, tidepools, estuaries, mangrove swamps and sandy/mud bottom from shore to depths of 150 m. Juveniles found nearshore and in estuaries; sex reversal probable; catch statistics poor being previously confused with @E. andersoni@ (Ref. 4332). [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:218206 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Epinephelus malabaricus. 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=218206 on 2013-05-25 | |||||||||||
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