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Hyporthodus niphobles

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Description

Hyporthodus niphobles (Gilbert & Starks, 1897).

Snowy Grouper or Star-studded Grouper. To 121 cm (47.6 in) TL (Robertson and Allen 2008). Near Bixby Bridge (about 36°22’N, 121°54’W), central California (Burton and Lea 2019) to Islas Lobos de Afuera, Peru (Chirichigno 1974), including Gulf of California (Heemstra in Fischer et al. 1995) and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Depth: 1–450 m (3–1,476 ft) (min.: González-Acosta et al. 1999; max.: Thomson et al. 2000). Heemstra (in Fischer et al. 1995) notes that some previous authors have referred to this species as Epinephelus niveatus (Valenciennes, 1828). Formerly Epinephelus niphobles (Gilbert & Starks, 1897).

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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Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BE87D6FF00FF2498EAF9DEF8123718

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)
Is source of
https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/03BE87D6FF00FF2498EAF9DEF8123718 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/191884025 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/2792/taxon/03BE87D6FF00FF2498EAF9DEF8123718.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Serranidae
Genus
Hyporthodus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Perciformes
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Gilbert & Starks
Species
niphobles
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Hyporthodus niphobles (Gilbert, 1897) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021

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.
  • Burton, E. J. & Lea, R. N. (2019) Annotated checklist of fishes from Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary with notes on extralimital species. ZooKeys, 887. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / zookeys. 887.38024
  • Chirichigno, F. N. (1974) Clave para identificar los peces marinos del Peru. Instituto del Mar del Peru Informe, No. 44.
  • 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.
  • Grove, J. S. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
  • Gonzalez-Acosta, A. F., De La Cruz-Aguero, J. & Cota-Gomez, V. M. (1999) Extension of geographical distribution and first occurrence of fishes in the northwest of Mexico. Hidrobiologica, 9, 39 - 44.