WoRMS taxon details
Cephalopholis cyanostigma (Valenciennes, 1828)
279147 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:279147)
accepted
Species
Cephalopholis kendalli Evermann & Seale, 1907 · unaccepted
Cephalopholis xanthopterus Allen & Starck, 1975 · unaccepted
Epinephelus cyanostigrna (Valenciennes, 1828) · unaccepted (misspelling)
Serranus cyanostigma Valenciennes, 1828 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Serranus cyanostigma 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]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Cephalopholis cyanostigma (Valenciennes, 1828). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=279147 on 2025-04-25
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Serranus cyanostigma 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]
original description (of Cephalopholis kendalli Evermann & Seale, 1907) Evermann, B.W.; Seale, A. (1907). Fishes of the Philippine Islands. Bull. U.S. Bur. Fish. 26(1906):49-110. [details]
original description (of Cephalopholis xanthopterus Allen & Starck, 1975) Allen, G. R. ; Starck, W. A. (1975). Cephalopholis xanthopterus, a new species of serranid fish from Indonesia, Melanesia and the Great Barrier Reef. <em>Records of the Western Australian Museum.</em> v. 3 (pt 3): 245-249. [details]
original description (of Cephalopholis kendalli Evermann & Seale, 1907) Evermann, B.W.; Seale, A. (1907). Fishes of the Philippine Islands. Bull. U.S. Bur. Fish. 26(1906):49-110. [details]
original description (of Cephalopholis xanthopterus Allen & Starck, 1975) Allen, G. R. ; Starck, W. A. (1975). Cephalopholis xanthopterus, a new species of serranid fish from Indonesia, Melanesia and the Great Barrier Reef. <em>Records of the Western Australian Museum.</em> v. 3 (pt 3): 245-249. [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
additional source
Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (49 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (23 publications) (from synonym Serranus cyanostigma Valenciennes, 1828)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Cephalopholis kendalli Evermann & Seale, 1907)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Cephalopholis cyanostigma)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Cephalopholis xanthopterus Allen & Starck, 1975)
To FishBase (from synonym Epinephelus cyanostigrna (Valenciennes, 1828))
To FishBase (from synonym Serranus cyanostigma Valenciennes, 1828)
To FishBase (from synonym Cephalopholis kendalli Evermann & Seale, 1907)
To FishBase images (Cephalopholis cyanostigma, Papua New Guinea, by Patzner, R.)
To GenBank (47 nucleotides; 30 proteins)
To GenBank (47 nucleotides; 30 proteins) (from synonym Serranus cyanostigma Valenciennes, 1828)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Cephalopholis cyanostigma USNM 424729 photograph lateral view)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Cephalopholis cyanostigma USNM 431613 lateral view)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (23 publications) (from synonym Serranus cyanostigma Valenciennes, 1828)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Cephalopholis kendalli Evermann & Seale, 1907)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Cephalopholis cyanostigma)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Cephalopholis xanthopterus Allen & Starck, 1975)
To FishBase (from synonym Epinephelus cyanostigrna (Valenciennes, 1828))
To FishBase (from synonym Serranus cyanostigma Valenciennes, 1828)
To FishBase (from synonym Cephalopholis kendalli Evermann & Seale, 1907)
To FishBase images (Cephalopholis cyanostigma, Papua New Guinea, by Patzner, R.)
To GenBank (47 nucleotides; 30 proteins)
To GenBank (47 nucleotides; 30 proteins) (from synonym Serranus cyanostigma Valenciennes, 1828)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Cephalopholis cyanostigma USNM 424729 photograph lateral view)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Cephalopholis cyanostigma USNM 431613 lateral view)
To ITIS
