WoRMS taxon details
Cephalopholis spiloparaea (Valenciennes, 1828)
218180 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:218180)
accepted
Species
Cephalopholis spiloparae (Valenciennes, 1828) · unaccepted
Serranus spiloparaeus Valenciennes, 1828 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Serranus spiloparaeus Valenciennes, 1828) Cuvier, G.; Valenciennes, A. (1828). Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome second. Livre Troisième. Des poissons de la famille des perches, ou des percoïdes. 2: i-xxi + 2 pp + 1-490, Pls. 9-40. [details]
Description Perhaps the most common grouper on Indo-Pacific coral reefs found below 40 m. Apparently, nothing is known of the biology...
Description Perhaps the most common grouper on Indo-Pacific coral reefs found below 40 m. Apparently, nothing is known of the biology of this species. The species is only known from insular localities except those collected from Pinda, Mozambique. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Cephalopholis spiloparaea (Valenciennes, 1828). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=218180 on 2025-06-30
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Serranus spiloparaeus Valenciennes, 1828) Cuvier, G.; Valenciennes, A. (1828). Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome second. Livre Troisième. Des poissons de la famille des perches, ou des percoïdes. 2: i-xxi + 2 pp + 1-490, Pls. 9-40. [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
Ecology
ecology source
Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details] 
Other
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Description Perhaps the most common grouper on Indo-Pacific coral reefs found below 40 m. Apparently, nothing is known of the biology of this species. The species is only known from insular localities except those collected from Pinda, Mozambique. [details]
To Barcode of Life (23 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Cephalopholis spiloparaea)
To FishBase (from synonym Serranus spiloparaeus Valenciennes, 1828)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Cephalopholis spiloparae (Valenciennes, 1828))
To FishBase images (Cephalopholis spiloparaea, Marshall Is., by Randall, J.E.)
To GenBank (30 nucleotides; 48 proteins)
To GenBank (30 nucleotides; 48 proteins) (from synonym Serranus spiloparaeus Valenciennes, 1828)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Cephalopholis spiloparaea USNM 435027 photograph lateral view)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Cephalopholis spiloparaea USNM 439862 photograph lateral view)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Cephalopholis spiloparaea)
To FishBase (from synonym Serranus spiloparaeus Valenciennes, 1828)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Cephalopholis spiloparae (Valenciennes, 1828))
To FishBase images (Cephalopholis spiloparaea, Marshall Is., by Randall, J.E.)
To GenBank (30 nucleotides; 48 proteins)
To GenBank (30 nucleotides; 48 proteins) (from synonym Serranus spiloparaeus Valenciennes, 1828)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Cephalopholis spiloparaea USNM 435027 photograph lateral view)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Cephalopholis spiloparaea USNM 439862 photograph lateral view)
To ITIS
