WoRMS taxon details
Epinephelus quoyanus (Valenciennes, 1830)
AphiaID: 218252
AphiaID: 218252
| 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 megachir (Richardson, 1846) Epinephelus gilberti (Richardson, 1842) Epinephelus megachir (Richardson, 1846) Epinephelus quoyans (Valenciennes, 1830) (misspelling) Perca melanocelidota Gronow, 1854 Serranus alatus Alleyne & Macleay, 1877 Serranus carinatus Alleyne & Macleay, 1877 Serranus gilberti Richardson, 1842 Serranus megachir Richardson, 1846 Serranus pardalis Bleeker, 1848 Serranus quoyanus Valenciennes, 1830 | ||||||||||
| 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 | Mozambique [details] Seychelles (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (16 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) To Encyclopedia of Life To FishBase To GenBank (21 nucleotides; 14 proteins) To IUCN Red List To IUCN Red List To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Note |
Description: Inhabits inshore silty reefs; there are no records from depths greater than 50 m. Feeds on crustaceans, fishes, and worms. The enlarged fleshy pectoral fins appear to have resulted from its habit of sitting on the substrate. [details] | ||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:218252 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Epinephelus quoyanus (Valenciennes, 1830). 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=218252 on 2013-05-22 | |||||||||||
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