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Epinephelus quinquefasciatus

Description

Epinephelus quinquefasciatus (Bocourt, 1868).

Pacific Goliath Grouper or Jewfish. To 250 cm (98.4 in) TL (Robertson and Allen 2002). Bahía Almejas (24°22’N, 111°42’W), southern Baja California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) and Gulf of California (Heemstra in Fischer et al. 1995) to Máncora, Peru (Chirichigno and Vélez 1998). Depth: intertidal to 100 m (328 ft) (min.: Personal Communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Craig et al. 2011). Also found in fresh water (Greenfield and Thomerson 1997). Previously considered Epinephelus itajara (Lichtenstein 1822), now known to be a species limited to the Atlantic Ocean (Craig et al. 2009).

Notes

Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 146, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008

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References

  • Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2002) Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific: an information system. CD-ROM. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama.
  • Fischer, W., Krupp, F., Schneider, W., Sommer, C., Carpenter, K. E. & Niem, V. H. (1995) Guia FAO para la identificacion para los fines de la pesca. Pacifico centro-oriental. Volume II, Vertebrados, Parte 1. Volume III, Vertebrados, Parte 2. FAO, Rome.
  • Chirichigno, F. N. & Velez D, J. (1998) Clave para identificaticar los peces marinos del Peru (segunda edicion, revisada y actualizada). Instituto de Mar de Peru Publicacion Especial.
  • Craig, M. T., Sadovy de Mitcheson, Y. J. & Heemstra, P. C. (2011) Groupers of the World. A Field and Market Guide. CRC Press, Boca Raton.
  • Greenfield, D. W. & Thomerson, J. E. (1997) Fishes of the Continental Waters of Belize. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
  • Craig, M. T., Graham, R. T., Torres, R. A., Hyde, J. R., Freitas, M. D., Ferreira, B. P., Hostim-Silva, M., Gerhardinger, L. C., Bertoncini, A. A. & Robertson, D. R. (2009) How many species of goliath grouper are there? Cryptic genetic divergence in a threatened marine fish and the resurrection of a geopolitical species. Endangered Species Research, 7, 167 - 174. https: // doi. org / 10.3354 / esr 00117