WoRMS taxon details

Epinephelus miliaris (Valenciennes, 1830)

218211  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:218211)

accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Not documented
Description Found in a variety of habitats. Juveniles (8 - 21 cm SL) have been taken on mud bottom, seagrass beds, mangrove swamps, and...  
Description Found in a variety of habitats. Juveniles (8 - 21 cm SL) have been taken on mud bottom, seagrass beds, mangrove swamps, and from coral reefs in depths of 1 to 16 m; adults in coral reefs in depths of 18 to 180 m. Stomach contents reported to include juvenile clappid crab, a stomatopod, and a gastropod (Ref. 6448). [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2024). FishBase. Epinephelus miliaris (Valenciennes, 1830). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=218211 on 2024-03-28
Date
action
by
1997-02-24 18:26:33Z
created
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z
changed

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original description  (of Epinephelus fuscus Fourmanoir, 1961) Fourmanoir, P. (1961). Liste complementaire des poissons du Canal de Mozambique. Memoires de l'Institut Scientifique de Madagascar Serie F (Oceanographie) 4: 83-166 [details]   

original description  (of Serranus diktiophorus Bleeker, 1856) Bleeker, P. (1856). Beschrijvingen van nieuwe of weinig bekende vischsoorten van Manado en Makassar, grootendeels verzameld op eene reis naar den Molukschen Archipel in het gevolg van den Gouverneur Generaal Duymaer van Twist. <em>Acta Societatis Regiae Scientiarum Indo-Neêrlandicae.</em> v. 1 (6): 1-80. [details]   

basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2023). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (02/2023)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]   

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]  OpenAccess publication 
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From other sources
Description Found in a variety of habitats. Juveniles (8 - 21 cm SL) have been taken on mud bottom, seagrass beds, mangrove swamps, and from coral reefs in depths of 1 to 16 m; adults in coral reefs in depths of 18 to 180 m. Stomach contents reported to include juvenile clappid crab, a stomatopod, and a gastropod (Ref. 6448). [details]
LanguageName 
English netfin grouper  [details]
Japanese ホウセキハタモドキ  [details]