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Epinephelus

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Epinephelus
Temporal range: 55–0 Ma
Eocene to present[1]
Epinephelus guttatus
Epinephelus tukula
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Serranidae
Subfamily: Epinephelinae
Tribe: Epinephelini
Genus: Epinephelus
Bloch, 1793

Epinephelus is a genus of fishes in the family Serranidae found in Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans.

Species

The 89 recognized species in this genus are:[2]

References

  1. ^ Sepkoski, J.J.Jr (2002): A Compendium of Fossil Marine Animal Genera. Archived July 23, 2011, at the Wayback Machine Bulletins of American Paleontology, 363: 1-560.
  2. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Epinephelus". FishBase. June 2016 version.
  3. ^ Golani, D., Askarov, G. & Dashevsky, Y. (2015): First record of the Red Sea spotted grouper, Epinephelus geoffroyi (Klunzinger, 1870) (Serranidae) in the Mediterranean. BioInvasions Records, 4 (2): 143–145.
  4. ^ Tucker, S.J., Kurniasih, E.M. & Craig, M.T. (2016): A New Species of Grouper (Epinephelus; Epinephelidae) from the Indo-Pacific. Copeia, 104 (3): 658-662.
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