Epinephelus

Epinephelus
Temporal range: 55–0 Ma

Eocene to present[1]
Epinephelus guttatus
Epinephelus tukula
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Actinopterygii
Order:Perciformes
Family:Serranidae
Subfamily:Epinephelinae
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, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2016). Species of Epinephelus in 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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