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Epinephelus quinquefasciatus

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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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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BE87D6FF00FF2498EAFC5BFBDD34BB

Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/5578008 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FF87FFAEFF91FFB5987DFFF2FA413005 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/295D03A4-589A-4E3F-B030-5121EF7D7398 (URL)
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https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/03BE87D6FF00FF2498EAFC5BFBDD34BB (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/191884021 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/2792/taxon/03BE87D6FF00FF2498EAFC5BFBDD34BB.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Serranidae
Genus
Epinephelus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Perciformes
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Bocourt
Species
quinquefasciatus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Epinephelus quinquefasciatus (Bocourt, 1868) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021

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