Serranus cernioides de Brito Capello, 1867Įpinephelus marginatus ( Latin pronunciation: ), the dusky grouper, yellowbelly rock cod or yellowbelly grouper, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a grouper from the subfamily Epinephelinae which is part of the family Serranidae, which also includes the anthias and sea basses.Revision of Indo-Pacific groupers (Perciformes: Serranidae: Epinephelinae), with descriptions of five new species. Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea. Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press 707 pp. New Caledonia to Tahiti and the Pitcairn Islands. Reef and shore fishes of the South Pacific. North Sydney : Jack Pollard Publishing Pty Ltd 629 pp. A taste for live fish: Hong Kong's live reef fish market. Sydney, NSW, Australia : New Holland Publishers xvii, 434 pp. A comprehensive reference for divers and fishermen. Coastal Fishes of South-eastern Australia. Jakarta : PT Gramedia Pustaka Utama 314 pp. Tropical Reef-Fishes of the Western Pacific, Indonesia and Adjacent Waters. Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Marine Biological Workshop, The Marine Fauna and Flora of Moreton Bay. Fishes of the Moreton Bay Marine Park and adjacent continental shelf waters, Queensland, Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 63: 9-50. Checklist of the fishes of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 20: 247-270. Biodiversity of shallow reef fish assemblages in Western Australia using a rapid censusing technique. FAO Species Identification Guide for Fisheries Purposes. The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Pacific. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of grouper, rockcod, hind, coral grouper and lyretail species known to date. Groupers of the World (Family Serranidae, Subfamily Epinephelinae). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2008: e.T132757A3442588. Grahamstown, South Africa : NISC Ltd 356 pp., Appendix 47 pp.įennessy, S., Min, L. Groupers of the World: a Field and Market Guide. Perth, WA : Western Australian Museum vi 201 pp., 70 pls.Ĭraig, M.T., Sadovy de Mitcheson, Y.J. The Marine Fishes of North-Western Australia. Perth, Australia: Universitiy of Hawai'i Press, Volumes I-III. Perth : Western Australian Museum 292 pp. Marine Fishes of Tropical Australia and South-east Asia. Type locality: Pondicherry, India.Ĭephalopholis sonnerati (Valenciennes 1828) ReferencesĪllen, G.R. Serranus sonnerati Valenciennes, 1828, Hist. Protected in Queensland by a size regulation, with a maximum catch size of 38 cm TL. Color of adults in the Pacific: pale reddish to yellowish brown with numerous small brownish red spots on head, body, and fins.įeeds on small fishes and crustaceans including shrimps, crabs and stomatopods.įorms spawning aggregations, and is likely to be a protogynous hermaphrodite. the caudal and posterior part of dorsal and anal fins pelvic fins often blackish distally. Color of adults in Indian Ocean: body orange-red to reddish brown, often with scattered small whitish blotches head purplish to reddish brown with numerous close-set orange-red spots membrane between lower 2 opercular spines usually darker than rest of head fins usually darker than body, esp. Pelvic fins usually reaching or extending beyond anus.
Inhabits deep lagoons and steep outer reef slopes Elsewhere, the species is widespread in the Indo-Pacific, from Africa to the Line Islands, north to southern Japan, and south to northern New South Wales (Australia). Known in Australia from The Abrolhos Islands, Western Australia, to near Darwin, Northern Territory, and from Cape York, Queensland, to South West Rocks, New South Wales also Lord Howe Island in the Tasman Sea. Cephalopholis sonnerati (Valenciennes 1828) More Info
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