Cephalopholis

<i>Cephalopholis</i>

Cephalopholis

Genus of fishes

Cephalopholis is a genus of marine ray-finned fish, groupers from the subfamily Epinephelinae in the family Serranidae, which also includes the anthias and sea basses. Many of the species have the word "hind" as part of their common name in English.[3]

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Species

Cephalolophis contains the following 24 species:[3]

Recent molecular analyses have challenged the placement of the redmouth grouper in the genus Aethaloperca, in a study based on five different genes this species fell within the Cephalopholis clade, thus suggesting that the species should be included in this genus and referred to as Cephalopholis rogaa.[4]

References

  1. [1]
    Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Cephallophis". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
  2. [2]
    Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Epinephelinae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 9 June 2020.
  3. [3]
    Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). Species of Cephalopholis in FishBase. December 2019 version.
  4. [4]
    Schoelinck, C.; Hinsinger, D. D.; Dettaï, A.; Cruaud, C. & Justine, J.-L. (2014). "A phylogenetic re-analysis of groupers with applications for ciguatera fish poisoning". PLOS ONE. 9 (e98198): e98198. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0098198. PMC 4122351. PMID 25093850.


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