Review of the family Serranidae (Perciformes) from the Canary Islands (eastern-central Atlantic), with the first records of Serranus hepatus and Epinephelus aeneus
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González-Lorenzo, J. Gustavo
Author
González-Jiménez, José F.
Author
González, José A.
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Cybium
2021
45
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141
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http://dx.doi.org/10.26028/cybium/2021-452-006
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10.26028/cybium/2021-452-006
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Epinephelus adscensionis
(Osbeck, 1765)
– Rock hind
Cephalopholis
cf.
cruentata
:
Falcón
, 2015
(PhD Thesis).
Epinephelus adscensionis
:
Falcón
et al.
, 2018: 42
, 55
(GC);
Báez
et al.
, 2019
: suppl. tab. (C) (as to be confirmed).
An amphi-Atlantic species with warm affinity; a wideranging species in the Atlantic (
Craig
et al.
, 2011
). Western Atlantic: from
Massachusetts
,
USA
and
Bermuda
to southern
Brazil
, including Vila dos Remedios, Abrolhos, Fernando de Noronha and Trindade islands. Central Atlantic: Bonaparte Seamount, and
Ascension and St. Helena
Islands. Eastern Atlantic:
São Tomé and Príncipe
(
Craig
et al.
, 2011
;
Heemstra and Anderson, 2016
;
Froese and Pauly, 2020
). Reports of this species from the Azores and
Cabo Verde
Islands (
Freitas
et al.
, 2019
), as well as from
South Africa
are unsubstantiated (
Froese and Pauly, 2020
).
It has been observed twice off the island of Gran Canaria with one individual each sighting (
Falcón
, 2015
as
Cephalopholis
cf.
cruentata
;
Falcón
et al.
, 2018
). Reported maximum size: to
45 cm
TL.