Serranidae
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 Humpback grouper, Cromileptes altivelis
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Serranidae is a large family of fishes, belonging to the order Perciformes. The family contains about 500 species of serranids in more than 60 genera, including the sea basses and the groupers (subfamily Epinephelinae). They range in size from the belted sandfish (Serranus subligarius) which grows to 4.5 in (110 mm) up to the itajara (Epinephelus itajara) which grows to 7 ft 10 in (2.4 m) and weighs up to 680 lb (300 kg).
Many of these species are brightly colored, and many are caught commercially for food. They are usually found over reefs, in tropical to sub-tropical waters along the coasts. Many species are sequential hermaphrodites, starting out as males and changing sex to female later in life. They produce large quantities of eggs and their larvae are planktonic, generally at the mercy of ocean currents until they are ready to settle into adult populations.
[edit] Classification
- Subfamily Anthiinae
- Anatolanthias
- Anthias
Sea goldie, Pseudanthias squamipinnis
- Caesioperca
- Caprodon
- Dactylanthias
- Giganthias
- Hemanthias
- Holanthias
- Hypoplectrodes
- Lepidoperca
- Luzonichthys
- Nemanthias
- Odontanthias
- Othos
- Planctanthias
- Plectranthias
- Pronotogrammus
- Pseudanthias
- Rabaulichthys
- Sacura
- Selenanthias
- Serranocirrhitus
- Tosana
- Tosanoides
- Trachypoma
- Subfamily Epinephelinae (groupers)
- Aethaloperca
- Alphestes
- Anyperodon
- Aulacocephalus
- Cephalopholis
Blue-spotted grouper, Cephalopholis argus - Cromileptes
Humpback grouper, Cromileptes altivelis. At the top is a porcupinefish and on the right a Picasso triggerfish. - Dermatolepis
- Epinephelides
- Epinephelus
Giant grouper, Epinephelus lanceolatus - Gonioplectrus
- Gracila
- Grammistops
- Mycteroperca
- Niphon
- Paranthias
- Plectropomus
- Pogonoperca
- Saloptia
- Triso
- Variola
- Subfamily Grammistinae (soapfishes)
- Belonoperca
- Rypticus
- Diploprion
- Aporops
- Pseudogramma
- Suttonia
- Grammistes
- Subfamily Liopropomatinae
- Bathyanthias
- Jeboehlkia
- Liopropoma
- Rainfordia
- Subfamily Serraninae
- Acanthistius
- Bullisichthys
- Centropristis
- Chelidoperca
- Cratinus
- Diplectrum
- Hypoplectrus
- Paralabrax
- Parasphyraenops
- Schultzea
- Serraniculus
- Serranus
- incertae sedis
- Caesioscorpis
- Hemilutjanus
[edit] References
- "Serranidae". FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. January 2006 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2006.
