WoRMS taxon details

Epinephelus multinotatus (Peters, 1876)

218237  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:218237)

accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Not documented
Description Juveniles found in inshore coral reefs, and adults are more common in deeper water. Feeds on small fishes and crabs. It has...  
Description Juveniles found in inshore coral reefs, and adults are more common in deeper water. Feeds on small fishes and crabs. It has been suggested that juveniles mimic the herbivorous damselfish @Neopomacentrus sindensis@, presumably to get closer to their unsuspecting prey. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2024). FishBase. Epinephelus multinotatus (Peters, 1876). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=218237 on 2024-03-28
Date
action
by
1997-02-24 18:26:33Z
created
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z
changed

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original description  (of Serranus jayakari Boulenger, 1889) Boulenger, G. A. (1889). Second account of the fishes obtained by Surgeon-Major A. S. G. Jayakar at Muscat, east coast of Arabia. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 1889 (pt 2): 236-246.
page(s): 237 [details]   

basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2023). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (02/2023)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]   

ecology source Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details]  OpenAccess publication 
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From other sources
Description Juveniles found in inshore coral reefs, and adults are more common in deeper water. Feeds on small fishes and crabs. It has been suggested that juveniles mimic the herbivorous damselfish @Neopomacentrus sindensis@, presumably to get closer to their unsuspecting prey. [details]
LanguageName 
English white-blotched grouper  [details]