WoRMS taxon details

Cephalopholis nigri (Günther, 1859)

279151  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:279151)

accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Not documented
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2024). FishBase. Cephalopholis nigri (Günther, 1859). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=279151 on 2024-05-06
Date
action
by
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z
created

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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 regional or thematic species database
Introduced species vector dispersal Maltese part of the Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin (Marine Region) Like elsewhere in the region (Galil, 2006; Katsanevakis et al., 2014), such maritime activity can be considered as the main vector in the introduction of alien species. This new record of alien species, follows others from areas that are characterized by intensive marine activity in Malta, such as the first Mediterranean records of Stegastes variabilis, Lutjanus fulviflamma and Abudefduf hoefleri (Vella et al., 2015a, b & 2016a). Nonetheless, one cannot exclude the possibility that C. nigri was an aquarium release given that members of the genus Cephalopholis are exported as ornamental fish (Monteiro-Neto et al., 2003) and in recent years this industry has led to an increase in alien species within the Mediterranean Sea (Guidetti et al., 2016; Zenetos et al., 2016).  [details]
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