Mycteroperca

Mycteroperca
Mycteroperca fusca
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Actinopterygii
Order:Perciformes
Family:Serranidae
Subfamily:Epinephelinae
Genus:Mycteroperca
Gill, 1863

Mycteroperca is a genus of fish in the family Serranidae, subfamily Epinephelinae (groupers).

Extant Species

It contains the following species:[1]

ImageScientific nameCommon NameDistribution
Mycteroperca bonaciBlack grouperwestern Atlantic Ocean, from Massachusetts, United States, in the north to southern Brazil, but is particularly associated with the southern Gulf of Mexico, the Florida Keys, the Bahamas and the Caribbean
Mycteroperca cidiVenezuelan grouperVenezuela
Mycteroperca jordaniGulf grouperEastern Central Pacific from Southern La Jolla, California, which is in the United States to Mazitlan, Mexico
Mycteroperca microlepisGag grouperWest Atlantic, including the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico.
Mycteroperca olfaxSailfin grouperEcuador.
Mycteroperca prionuraSawtail grouperMexico
Mycteroperca rosaceaLeopard grouperEastern Central Pacific
Mycteroperca rubraMottled grouperAlbania, Algeria, Angola, Benin, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cameroon, Cape Verde, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Croatia, Cyprus, Ivory Coast, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Gibraltar, Greece, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Malta, Mauritania, Morocco, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Serbia and Montenegro, Sierra Leone, Slovenia, Spain, Syria, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, and Western Sahara.
Mycteroperca tigrisTiger groupernorth-western Atlantic Ocean
Mycteroperca xenarchaBroomtail groupereastern Pacific along the western coast of the Americas from California to Peru.
Mycteroperca venenosaYellowfin grouperwestern Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea, and the Gulf of Mexico
Mycteroperca phenaxScamp groupereastern Gulf of Mexico
Mycteroperca interstitialisYellowmouth grouperthe Caribbean and Atlantic Ocean
Mycteroperca acutirostrisComb grouperwestern Atlantic Ocean
Mycteroperca fuscaIsland groupereastern Atlantic

References

  1. ↑ R. Froese; D. Pauly, eds. (2016). "15 Species of Family Serranidae with Genus Mycteroperca (Sea basses: groupers and fairy basslets)". Fishbase. Retrieved 11 February 2017.


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