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Epinephelus Bloch, 1793
Taxonomic Serial No.: 167694

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Taxonomy and Nomenclature


	Kingdom:	Animalia
	Taxonomic Rank:	Genus
	Synonym(s):	Promicrops Poey, 1868
	Common Name(s):	groupers [English]

	Taxonomic Status:
	Current Standing:	valid

	Data Quality Indicators:
	Record Credibility Rating:	verified - standards met
	Global Species Completeness:	complete
	Latest Record Review:	2004

Taxonomic Hierarchy


	Kingdom	Animalia – Animal, animaux, animals
	Subkingdom	Bilateria – triploblasts
	Infrakingdom	Deuterostomia
	Phylum	Chordata – cordés, cordado, chordates
	Subphylum	Vertebrata – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates
	Infraphylum	Gnathostomata
	Superclass	Actinopterygii – ray-finned fishes, spiny rayed fishes, poisson épineux, poissons à nageoires rayonnées
	Class	Teleostei
	Superorder	Acanthopterygii
	Order	Perciformes – perch-like fishes
	Suborder	Percoidei
	Family	Serranidae – groupers, sea basses, bars, mérous, serranidés, cabrillas y meros, sea basses and groupers, serrans
	Subfamily	Epinephelinae
	Tribe	Epinephelini
	Genus	Epinephelus Bloch, 1793 – groupers
		Direct Children:
	Species	Epinephelus acanthistius (Gilbert, 1892) – Gulf coney, baqueta, rooster hind
	Species	Epinephelus adscensionis (Osbeck, 1765) – rock hind, cabra mora, cabrilla payaso
	Species	Epinephelus aeneus (E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1817) – white grouper
	Species	Epinephelus akaara (Temminck and Schlegel, 1842) – redspotted grouper, Hong Kong grouper
	Species	Epinephelus albomarginatus Boulenger, 1903 – white-edged grouper
	Species	Epinephelus amblycephalus (Bleeker, 1857) – banded grouper
	Species	Epinephelus analogus Gill, 1863 – spotted cabrilla, cabrilla pinta
	Species	Epinephelus andersoni Boulenger, 1903 – catface grouper
	Species	Epinephelus areolatus (Forsskål, 1775) – yellowspotted rockcod, areolate grouper
	Species	Epinephelus awoara (Temminck and Schlegel, 1842) – yellow grouper
	Species	Epinephelus bilobatus Randall and Allen, 1987 – twinspot grouper, frostback rockcod
	Species	Epinephelus bleekeri (Vaillant in Vaillant and Bocourt, 1878) – duskytail grouper
	Species	Epinephelus bontoides (Bleeker, 1855) – palemargin grouper
	Species	Epinephelus bruneus Bloch, 1793 – longtooth grouper, mudgrouper
	Species	Epinephelus caninus (Valenciennes, 1843) – dogtooth grouper
	Species	Epinephelus chabaudi (Castelnau, 1861) – moustache grouper
	Species	Epinephelus chlorocephalus (Valenciennes in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1830) – Tonga grouper
	Species	Epinephelus chlorostigma (Valenciennes in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1828)
	Species	Epinephelus cifuentesi Lavenberg and Grove in Heemstra and Randall, 1993 – cabrilla gallina, olive grouper
	Species	Epinephelus clippertonensis Allen and Robertson, 1999
	Species	Epinephelus coeruleopunctatus (Bloch, 1790)
	Species	Epinephelus coioides (Hamilton, 1822) – orange-spotted grouper
	Species	Epinephelus corallicola (Valenciennes in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1828) – coral rockcod
	Species	Epinephelus costae (Steindachner, 1878) – goldblotch grouper
	Species	Epinephelus cyanopodus (Richardson, 1846) – speckled blue grouper, purple rockcod, blue Maori
	Species	Epinephelus daemelii (Günther, 1876) – saddletail grouper, back rockcod, saddled rockcod, spotted black grouper
	Species	Epinephelus darwinensis Randall and Heemstra, 1991 – Darwin grouper
	Species	Epinephelus diacanthus (Valenciennes in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1828) – spinycheek grouper
	Species	Epinephelus drummondhayi Goode and Bean, 1878 – speckled hind, mero pintarroja
	Species	Epinephelus epistictus (Temminck and Schlegel, 1842) – dotted grouper
	Species	Epinephelus ergastularius Whitley, 1930 – sevenbar grouper
	Species	Epinephelus erythrurus (Valenciennes in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1828) – cloudy grouper
	Species	Epinephelus exsul (Fowler, 1944) – cabrilla diez espinas, tenspine grouper
	Species	Epinephelus fasciatomaculosus (Peters, 1865) – rock grouper
	Species	Epinephelus fasciatus (Forsskål, 1775) – bluetipped rockcod, blacktipped grouper, footballer cod
	Species	Epinephelus faveatus (Valenciennes in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1828) – barred-chest grouper
	Species	Epinephelus flavocaeruleus (Lacepède, 1802) – blue-and-yellow grouper
	Species	Epinephelus flavolimbatus Poey, 1865 – yellowedge grouper, mero de aletas amarillas, mero extraviado
	Species	Epinephelus fuscoguttatus (Forsskål, 1775) – black rockcod, brown-marbled grouper
	Species	Epinephelus gabriellae Randall and Heemstra, 1991 – multispotted grouper
	Species	Epinephelus goreensis (Valenciennes in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1830) – Dungat grouper
	Species	Epinephelus guttatus (Linnaeus, 1758) – red hind, cabrilla, cabrilla colorada
	Species	Epinephelus haifensis Ben-tuvia, 1953 – Haifa grouper
	Species	Epinephelus heniochus Fowler, 1904 – bridled grouper
	Species	Epinephelus hexagonatus (Forster in Bloch and Schneider, 1801) – starspotted grouper
	Species	Epinephelus howlandi (Günther, 1873) – blacksaddle grouper
	Species	Epinephelus indistinctus Randall and Heemstra, 1991 – Somali grouper
	Species	Epinephelus irroratus (Forster in Bloch and Schneider, 1801) – Marquesan grouper
	Species	Epinephelus itajara (Lichtenstein, 1822) – guasa, goliath grouper, mero guasa
	Species	Epinephelus labriformis (Jenyns, 1840) – lateralband grouper, cabrilla piedrera, flag cabrilla, starry grouper
	Species	Epinephelus lanceolatus (Bloch, 1790)
	Species	Epinephelus latifasciatus (Temminck and Schlegel, 1842) – striped grouper
	Species	Epinephelus lebretonianus (Hombron and Jacquinot in Jacquinot and Guichenot, 1853) – mystery grouper
	Species	Epinephelus longispinis (Kner, 1864) – streakyspot grouper, longspine grouper
	Species	Epinephelus macrospilos (Bleeker, 1855) – snubnose grouper
	Species	Epinephelus maculatus (Bloch, 1790) – highfin grouper
	Species	Epinephelus magniscuttis Postel, Fourmanoir and Guézé, 1963 – speckled grouper
	Species	Epinephelus malabaricus (Bloch and Schneider, 1801) – Malabar grouper
	Species	Epinephelus marginatus (Lowe, 1834) – dusky grouper
	Species	Epinephelus melanostigma Schultz in Schultz et al., 1953 – one-blotch grouper
	Species	Epinephelus merra Bloch, 1793 – honeycomb rockcod, honeycomb grouper
	Species	Epinephelus miliaris (Valenciennes in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1830) – netfin grouper
	Species	Epinephelus morio (Valenciennes in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1828) – red grouper, cherna americana
	Species	Epinephelus morrhua (Valenciennes in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1833) – comet grouper
	Species	Epinephelus multinotatus (Peters, 1876) – white-blotched grouper
	Species	Epinephelus mystacinus (Poey, 1852) – misty grouper, cherno de lo alto, moustache grouper, convict grouper
	Species	Epinephelus nigritus (Holbrook, 1855) – cherno prieto, mero negro, warsaw grouper
	Species	Epinephelus niphobles Gilbert and Starks in Gilbert, 1897 – baqueta ploma, star-studded grouper, star-studed grouper
	Species	Epinephelus niveatus (Valenciennes in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1828) – snowy grouper, cherna manchada, cherna pintada
	Species	Epinephelus octofasciatus Griffin, 1926 – eightbar grouper
	Species	Epinephelus ongus (Bloch, 1790) – white-streaked grouper, specklefin rockcod
	Species	Epinephelus perplexus Randall, Hoese and Last in Randall and Heemstra, 1991 – puzzling grouper
	Species	Epinephelus peruanus Chirichigno F., 1963
	Species	Epinephelus poecilonotus (Temminck and Schlegel, 1842) – dot-dash grouper
	Species	Epinephelus polylepis Randall and Heemstra, 1991 – smallscaled grouper
	Species	Epinephelus polyphekadion (Bleeker, 1849) – comouflage grouper, small toothed rockcod
	Species	Epinephelus polystigma (Bleeker, 1853) – white-doted grouper
	Species	Epinephelus posteli Fourmanoir and Crosnier, 1964 – striped-fin grouper
	Species	Epinephelus quernus Seale, 1901
	Species	Epinephelus quoyanus (Valenciennes in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1830) – longfin grouper, long-finned rock-cod
	Species	Epinephelus radiatus (Day, 1868) – oblique-banded grouper
	Species	Epinephelus retouti Bleeker, 1868 – red-tipped grouper
	Species	Epinephelus rivulatus (Valenciennes in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1830) – halfmoon grouper, Chinaman rockcod, white-dotted grouper
	Species	Epinephelus septemfasciatus (Thunberg, 1793) – convict grouper
	Species	Epinephelus sexfasciatus (Valenciennes in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1828) – sixbar grouper
	Species	Epinephelus socialis (Günther, 1873) – surge grouper
	Species	Epinephelus spilotoceps Schultz in Schultz et al., 1953 – foursaddle grouper
	Species	Epinephelus stictus Randall and Allen, 1987 – black-dotted grouper
	Species	Epinephelus stoliczkae (Day, 1875) – epaulet grouper
	Species	Epinephelus striatus (Bloch, 1792) – cherna criolla, mero del Caribe, Nassau grouper
	Species	Epinephelus suborbitalis Amaoka and Randall, 1990 – seamount grouper
	Species	Epinephelus summana (Forsskål, 1775) – Summan grouper
	Species	Epinephelus tauvina (Forsskål, 1775) – greasy grouper
	Species	Epinephelus timorensis Randall and Allen, 1987 – yellowspotted gouper
	Species	Epinephelus trimaculatus (Valenciennes in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1828) – threespot gouper
	Species	Epinephelus trophis Randall and Allen, 1987 – plump grouper
	Species	Epinephelus tuamotuensis Fourmanoir, 1971 – reticulate gouper, snakeskin seabass
	Species	Epinephelus tukula Morgans, 1959 – potato grouper, potato cod
	Species	Epinephelus undulatostriatus (Peters, 1866) – Maori gouper, red-speckled rock-cod
	Species	Epinephelus undulosus (Quoy and Gaimard, 1824) – wavy-lined grouper

References


	Expert(s):
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	Other Source(s):
	Source:	Catalog of Fishes, 13-May-2004, website (version 10-May-04)
	Acquired:	2004
	Notes:	http://www.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/
	Reference for:	Epinephelus

	Source:	NODC Taxonomic Code, database (version 8.0)
	Acquired:	1996
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Epinephelus

	Publication(s):
	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Eschmeyer, William N., ed.
	Publication Date:	1998
	Article/Chapter Title:	Catalog of Fishes
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Special Publication of the Center for Biodiversity Research and Information, no. 1, vol 1-3
	Page(s):	2905
	Publisher:	California Academy of Sciences
	Publication Place:	San Francisco, California, USA
	ISBN/ISSN:	0-940228-47-5
	Notes:	Available online at http://www.jstor.org/stable/25622932
	Reference for:	Epinephelus

	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Heemstra, Phillip C., and John E. Randall
	Publication Date:	1993
	Article/Chapter Title:	Groupers of the World (Family Serranidae, Subfamily Epinephelinae): An Annotated and Illustrated Catalogue of the Grouper, Rockcod, Hind, Coral Grouper and Lyretail Species Known to Date
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	FAO Fisheries Synopsis, no. 125, vol. 16
	Page(s):	vii + 382
	Publisher:	Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
	Publication Place:	Rome, Italy
	ISBN/ISSN:	92-5-103125-8, 0014-5602
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Epinephelus

	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Nelson, Joseph S.
	Publication Date:	1994
	Article/Chapter Title:
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Fishes of the World, Third Edition
	Page(s):	xvii + 600
	Publisher:	John Wiley and Sons
	Publication Place:	New York, New York, USA
	ISBN/ISSN:	0-471-54713-1
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Epinephelus

	Author(s)/Editor(s):	Shiino, Sueo M.
	Publication Date:	1976
	Article/Chapter Title:	List of Common Names of Fishes of the World, Those Prevailing among English-speaking Nations
	Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.:	Science Report of Shima Marineland, no. 4
	Page(s):	262
	Publisher:	Shima Marineland
	Publication Place:	Kashikojima, Shima, Mie, Japan
	ISBN/ISSN:	0385-1109
	Notes:
	Reference for:	Epinephelus

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