WoRMS taxon details
Epinephelus lanceolatus (Bloch, 1790)
AphiaID: 218224
AphiaID: 218224
| 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 |
Batrachus gigas Günther, 1869 Holocentrus lanceolatus Bloch, 1790 Oligorus goliath De Vis, 1882 Oligorus terrae-reginae Ramsay, 1880 (misspelling) Promicrops lanceolatus (Bloch, 1790) Serranus abdominalis Peters, 1855 Serranus geographicus Valenciennes, 1828 Serranus lanceolatus (Bloch, 1790) Serranus phaeostigmaeus Fowler, 1907 Stereolepoides thompsoni Fowler, 1923 | ||||||||||
| 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: Roberts, C.; Stewart, A.; Francis, M. (2009). Marine fishes (Chordata). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details] additional source: FishBase, version october 2012 [details] | ||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, brackish, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Djibouti [details] Eritrea [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mauritius [details] Mozambique [details] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Reunion [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] South Africa (country) [details] Tanzania [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (7 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (30 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase To GenBank (162 nucleotides; 77 proteins) To IUCN Red List To IUCN Red List To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Note |
Description: Common in shallow waters and has been caught at depths of 100 m. Also found in caves in coral reefs or wrecks; adults and juveniles are also found in estuaries. Individuals more than a meter long have been caught from shore and in harbours. Feeds on spiny lobsters, fishes, including small sharks and batoids, and juvenile sea turtles and crustaceans. In South African eatuaries, the main prey item is the mud crab, @Scylla serrata@. [details] | ||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:218224 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Epinephelus lanceolatus (Bloch, 1790). 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=218224 on 2013-05-25 | |||||||||||
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