WoRMS taxon details

Epinephelus marginatus (Lowe, 1834)

127036  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:127036)

accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Not documented
Description Prefers rocky bottoms. Occurs in shallow water out to depths of 50 m, and is readily taken by anglers. Feeds on crabs and...  
Description Prefers rocky bottoms. Occurs in shallow water out to depths of 50 m, and is readily taken by anglers. Feeds on crabs and octopus; larger individuals feed on a greater proportion of fishes, the majority of which are reef-associated species (Ref. 6842). [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2024). FishBase. Epinephelus marginatus (Lowe, 1834). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=127036 on 2024-03-28
Date
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
created
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z
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original description  (of Serranus cernioides de Brito Capello, 1867) de Brito Capello, F. (1867). Peixes novos de Portugal e da Africa occidental e caractéres distinctivos d'outras especies já conhecidas. <em>Jornal do Sciências Mathemáticas, Physicas e Naturaes, Lisboa.</em> v. 1 (no. 2): 154-169, Pl. 4.
page(s): 156 [details]   

original description  (of Epinephelus brachysoma Cope, 1871) Cope, E. D. (1871). Contribution to the ichthyology of the Lesser Antilles. <em>Transactions of the American Philosophical Society (New Series).</em> v. 14 (pt 3) (art. 5): 445-483.
page(s): 439 [details]   

original description  (of Cernua gigas Costa, 1849) Costa, O. G. (1829-53). Fauna del regno di Napoli, ossia enumerazione di tutti gli animali che abitano le diverse regioni di questo regno e le acque che le bagnano, etc. Pesci. <em>Fauna del regno di Napoli.</em> Part 1: 511 pp. (variously paginated), 60 pls.
page(s): Cernua p. 1, Pl. 7, bis [details]   

basis of record van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 357-374 (look up in IMIS[details]   

additional source Wheeler, A. (1992). A list of the common and scientific names of fishes of the British Isles. <i>J. Fish Biol. 41(Suppl. A)</i>: 1-37 (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 142 [details]   

additional source Lowe, R.T. (1833). Description of <i>Alepisaurus</i>, a new genus of fishes. <em>Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond.</em> (pt 1): 104.
page(s): 142 [details]   

additional source 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 Prefers rocky bottoms. Occurs in shallow water out to depths of 50 m, and is readily taken by anglers. Feeds on crabs and octopus; larger individuals feed on a greater proportion of fishes, the majority of which are reef-associated species (Ref. 6842). [details]
LanguageName 
Catalan neroanfós  [details]
Corsican lucerna  [details]
Dutch tandbaarsgeelpensbruine tandbaars  [details]
English dusky perchdusky grouper  [details]
French mérou sombremérou noir  [details]
German Riesen-Zackenbarschbrauner Zackenbarsch  [details]
Hebrew דקר הסלעים  [details]
Italian cernia bruna  [details]
Modern Greek (1453-) Ροφός  [details]
Polish granik wielki  [details]
Portuguese piracucamerogaroupa-verdadeira  [details]
Russian темный групергигантский мероубурый групер  [details]
Slovenian kirnja  [details]
Spanish mero nebulosomero morenomerogaropachernia marrón  [details]
Swedish brun havsabborre  [details]
Turkish orfoz  [details]