Epinephelus fasciatus (Forsskål, 1775)

González-Lorenzo, J. Gustavo, González-Jiménez, José F. & González, José A., 2021, Review of the family Serranidae (Perciformes) from the Canary Islands (eastern-central Atlantic), with the first records of Serranus hepatus and Epinephelus aeneus, Cybium 45 (2), pp. 141-154 : 147

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.26028/cybium/2021-452-006
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10493621
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/3E0E8799-FF8A-FFAE-D04A-FCE6FB0BFB4D
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Epinephelus fasciatus (Forsskål, 1775)
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Epinephelus fasciatus (Forsskål, 1775) View in CoL – Blacktip grouper

Epinephelus fasciatus View in CoL : Falcón et al., 2018: 41-42, 55 (GC).

Epinephelus fasciatus : Báez et al., 2019: suppl. tab. (C) (as to be confirmed).

An Indo-Pacific warm-affinity species, ranging from the Red Sea to Port Alfred, South Africa in the west, and throughout the western and central Pacific ( Craig et al., 2011; Froese and Pauly, 2020).

It is a single-record non-native species in the Canaries, from where it has been recently first recorded based on a 30 cm TL adult caught in June 2018 close to the Port of Las Palmas, Gran Canaria ( Falcón et al., 2018).