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The red grouper (Epinephelus morio) 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. It is found in the western Atlantic Ocean.
Epinephelus is a genus of marine ray-finned fish, groupers from the subfamily Epinephelinae, part of the family Serranidae, which also includes the anthias and sea basses. They are predatory fish, largely associated with reefs and are found in tropical and subtropical seas throughout the world.
They are not built for long-distance, fast swimming. They can be quite large: in length, over a meter. The largest is the Atlantic goliath grouper (Epinephelus itajara) which has been weighed at 399 kilograms (880 pounds) and a length of 2.43 m (7 ft 11 + 1 ⁄ 2 in), [2] though in such a large group, species vary considerably. They swallow ...
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Pseudorhabdosynochus justinella is a diplectanid monogenean parasitic on the gills of the red grouper, Epinephelus morio. It has been described by Kritsky, Bakenhaster and Adams in 2015. [1] The specific name justinella is in honor of parasitologist Jean-Lou Justine from National Museum of Natural History in France. [1]
Intensities are as high as up to 1,006 individual Pseudorhabdosynochus sp. per fish (Epinephelus fuscoguttatus) in Indonesia, [18] up to 294 P. coioidesis per fish (Epinephelus coioides) in South China, [21] 327 P. yucatanensis per fish on Epinephelus morio in Mexico, [22] and 500 P. epinepheli per 100 grams of gill filaments of Epinephelus ...
Kritsky, Bakenhaster & Adams (2015) wrote that Pseudorhabdosynochus bunkleywilliamsae most closely resembles Pseudorhabdosynochus justinella, a parasite of Epinephelus morio, in the general morphology of the vaginal sclerite and in the shape and number of concentric rows of rodlets in the squamodisc.
The areolate grouper (Epinephelus areolatus), also known as the yellowspotted rockcod, areolate rockcod, green-spotted rock-cod, squaretail grouper or squaretail rock-cod, 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.