Epinephelus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Percoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii Infraclassis: Teleostei Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai Supercohors: Clupeocephala Cohors: Euteleosteomorpha Subcohors: Neoteleostei Infracohors: Eurypterygia Sectio: Ctenosquamata Subsectio: Acanthomorphata Divisio/Superordo: Acanthopterygii Subdivisio: Percomorphaceae Series: Eupercaria Ordo: Perciformes Subordo: Percoidei Superfamilia: Percoidea

Familia: Serranidae
Subfamilia: Epinephelinae
Genus: Epinephelus
Species: E. acanthistius – E. adscensionis – E. aeneus – E. akaara – E. albomarginatus – E. amblycephalus – E. analogus – E. andersoni – E. areolatus – E. awoara – E. bilobatus – E. bleekeri – E. bontoides – E. bruneus – E. caninus – E. chaubaudi – E. chlorocephalus – E. chlorostigma – E. cifuentesi – E. clippertonensis – E. coeruleopunctatus – E. coioides – E. corallicola – E. costae – E. cyanopodus – E. daemelii – E. darwinensis – E. diacanthus – E. drummondhayi – E. episticus – E. epistictus – E. ergastularius – E. erythrurus – E. exsul – E. fasciatomaculosus – E. fasciatus – E. faveatus – E. flavocaeruleus – E. flavolimbatus – E. fuscoguttatus – E. fuscomarginatus – E. gabriellae – E. geoffroyi – E. goreensis – E. guaza – E. guttatus – E. haifensis – E. heniochus – E. hexagonatus – E. howlandi – E. indistinctus – E. irroratus – E. itajara – E. kupangensis – E. labriformis – E. lanceolatus – E. latifasciatus – E. lebretonianis – E. longispinis – E. macrospilos – E. maculatus – E. magniscuttis – E. malabaricus – E. marginatus – E. melanostigma – E. merra – E. miliaris – E. morio – E. morrhua – E. multinotatus – E. mystacinus – E. nigritus – E. niphobles – E. niveatus – E. octofasciatus – E. ongus – E. perplexus – E. poecilonotus – E. polylepis – E. polyphekadion – E. polystigma – E. posteli – E. quernus – E. quinquefasciatus – E. quoyanus – E. radiatus – E. retouti – E. rivulatus – E. septemfasciatus – E. sexfasciatus – E. socialis – E. spilotoceps – E. stictus – E. stoliczkae – E. striatus – E. suborbitalis – E. summana – E. tankahkeei – E. tauvina – E. timorensis – E. trimaculatus – E. trophis – E. tuamotuensis – E. tukula – E. undulatostriatus –E. undulosus

Name

Epinephelus Bloch, 1793

Synonyms

Promicrops Poey, 1868

References

Bloch, M.E. 1793. Naturgeschichte der ausländischen Fische. Berlin. v. 7: i–xiv + 1–144, Pls. 325–360. Reference page.
Du, J-G., Loh, K-H., Then, A.Y-H., Zheng, X-Q., Peristiwady, T., Rizman-Idid, M. & Alias, M. 2019. First record of the dotted grouper Epinephelus epistictus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1843) (Perciformes, Serranidae) in Malaysia. Zookeys, 861: 107–118. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.861.34043 Reference page.
Johnson, J.W. & Wilmer, J.W. 2019. Epinephelus fuscomarginatus (Perciformes: Epinephelidae), a new species of grouper from off the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Zootaxa 4674(3): 329–348. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4674.3.2 Reference page.
Randall, J.E.; Bogorodsky, S.V.; Krupp, F.; Rose, J.M.; Fricke, R. 2013: Epinephelus geoffroyi (Klunzinger, 1870) (Pisces: Serranidae), a valid species of grouper endemic to the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. Zootaxa 3641(5): 524–532. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3641.5.2 Reference page.
Rothman, S.B.S., Stern, N. & Goren, M. 2016. First record of the Indo-Pacific areolate grouper Epinephelus areolatus (Forsskål, 1775) (Perciformes: Epinephelidae) in the Mediterranean Sea. Zootaxa 4067(4): 479–483. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4067.4.7. Reference page.
Wu, H-H., Qu, M., Lin, H-D., Tang, W. & Ding, S-X. 2020. Epinephelus tankahkeei, a new species of grouper (Teleostei, Perciformes, Epinephelidae) from the South China Sea. ZooKeys 933: 125–137. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.933.46406 Reference page.

Links

Epinephelus – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
Epinephelus species list in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.

Vernacular names

English: Grouper, Mero
eesti: Kivikoha
italiano: Cernia
日本語: マハタ属
ไทย: ปลากะรัง, ปลาเก๋า, ปลาหมอทะเล