Epinephelus Bloch 1793
Creators: name: Ma, Ka Yan
name: Craig, Matthew T.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Perciformes
Serranidae
Epinephelus

description: Genus Epinephelus Bloch (76 species)
Type species: Epinephelus marginalis Bloch (¼ E. fasciatus [Forsskål] designated under the plenary powers of the ICZN Opinion 93).
Type locality: Red Sea.
Included species:
E. adscensionis (Osbeck, 1765)
E. aeneus (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1817)
E. akaara (Temminck & Schlegel, 1842)
E. altivelis (Valenciennes, 1828) (formerly Cromileptes)
E. amblycephalus (Bleeker, 1857)
E. analogus Gill, 1863
E. areolatus (Forsskål, 1775)
E. awoara (Temminck & Schlegel, 1842)
E. bilobatus Randall & Allen, 1987
E. bleekeri (Vaillant, 1878)
E. bontoides (Bleeker, 1855)
E. bruneus Bloch, 1793
E. chlorostigma (Valenciennes, 1828)
E. clippertonensis Allen & Robertson, 1999
E. coeruleopunctatus (Bloch, 1790)
E. coioides (Hamilton, 1822)
E. corallicola (Valenciennes, 1828)
E. cyanopodus (Richardson, 1846)
E. daemelii (Günther, 1876)
E. diacanthus (Valenciennes, 1828)
E. erythrurus (Valenciennes, 1828)
E. fasciatomaculosus (Peters, 1865)
E. fasciatus (Forsskål, 1775)
E. faveatus (Valenciennes, 1828)
E. flavocaeruleus (Lacepède, 1802)
E. fuscoguttatus (Forsskål, 1775)
E. gabriellae Randall & Heemstra, 1991
E. geoffroyi (Klunzinger, 1870)
E. guttatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
E. hexagonatus (Forster, 1801)
E. howlandi (Günther, 1873)
E. kupangensis Tucker, Kurniasih and Craig, 2016
E. irroratus (Forster, 1801)
E. itajara (Lichtenstein, 1822)
E. labriformis (Jenyns, 1840)
E. lanceolatus (Bloch, 1790)
E. latifasciatus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1842)
E. leucogrammicus (Valenciennes, 1828) (formerly Anyperodon)
E. longispinis (Kner, 1864) E. macrospilos (Bleeker, 1855)
E. maculatus (Bloch, 1790)
E. magniscuttis Postel, Fourmanoir & Gueze, 1963 E. malabaricus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) E. melanostigma Schultz, 1953
E. merra Bloch, 1793
E. miliaris (Valenciennes, 1830)
E. moara (Temminck & Schlegel, 1842)
E. morio (Valenciennes, 1828)
E. multinotatus (Peters, 1876)
E. ongus (Bloch, 1790)
E. polylepis Randall & Heemstra, 1991 E. polyphekadion (Bleeker, 1849)
E. polystigma (Bleeker, 1853)
E. quinquefasciatus (Bocourt, 1868)
E. quoyanus (Valenciennes, 1830)
E. retouti Bleeker, 1868
E. rivulatus (Valenciennes, 1830)
E. sexfasciatus (Valenciennes, 1828)
E. socialis (Günther, 1873)
E. spilotoceps Schultz, 1953
E. stictus Randall & Allen, 1987
E. stoliczkae (Day, 1875)
E. striatus (Bloch, 1792)
E. summana (Forsskål, 1775)
E. tauvina (Forsskal, 1775)
E. trimaculatus (Valenciennes, 1828) E. tuamotuensis Fourmanoir, 1971
E. tukula Morgans, 1959
E. undulatostriatus (Peters, 1866)
E. undulosus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824)
Species incertae sedis:
E. chlorocephalus * (Valenciennes, 1830) E. indistinctus* Randall & Heemstra, 1991 E. lebretonianus* (Hombron & Jacquinot, 1853) E. suborbitalis* Amaoka & Randall, 1990 E. timorensis Randall & Allen, 1987
E. trophis* Randall & Allen, 1987
description: Published as part of Ma, Ka Yan & Craig, Matthew T., 2018, An Inconvenient Monophyly: An Update on the Taxonomy of the Groupers (Epinephelidae), pp. 443-456 in Copeia 106 (3) on page 455, DOI: 10.1643/ci-18-055, http://zenodo.org/record/12536069