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Epinephelus labriformis

Description

Epinephelus labriformis (Jenyns, 1840).

Flag Cabrilla or Starry Grouper. To 60 cm (23.6 in) TL (Robertson and Allen 2008). Mission Bay, southern California (Craig et al. 2006) to upper Gulf of California (Heemstra in Fischer et al. 1995) to Chile (Fricke et al. 2020), including Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Depth: intertidal to at least 50 m (164 ft) (min.: Weaver 1970; max.: McCosker et al. 1997).

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. (2008) Shorefishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific: an Information System. Version 1.0 (2008). Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa.
  • Craig, M. T., Pondella II, D. S. & Lea, R. N. (2006) New records of the flag cabrilla, Epinephelus labriformis (Serranidae: Epinephelinae), from the Pacific Coast of Baja California, Mexico, and San Diego, California, USA, with notes on the distribution of other groupers in California. California Fish and Game, 92, 91 - 97.
  • 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.
  • Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & van der Laan, R. (Eds). 2020. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, Reference. Available from: http: // researcharchive. calacademy. org / research / ichthyology / catalog / fishcatmain. asp (accessed 17 April 2021).
  • Grove, J. S. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
  • Weaver, P. L. (1970) Species diversity and ecology of tide pool fishes in three Pacific coastal areas of Costa Rica. Revista de Biologia Tropical, 17, 165 - 185.
  • McCosker, J. E., Merlin, G., Long, D. S., Gilmore, R. G. & Villon, C. (1997) Deep slope fishes collected during the 1995 eruption of Isla Fernandina, Galapagos. Noticias de Galapagos, No. 58, 22 - 26.