Species details : Epinephelus aeneus (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1817)

Accepted scientific name:
Epinephelus aeneus (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1817) (accepted name) 1 literature reference for Epinephelus aeneus  (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1817)
Synonyms:
Cherna aenea (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1817) (synonym) 1 literature reference for Cherna aenea (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1817)
Epinephelus aenus (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1817) (synonym) 1 literature reference for Epinephelus aenus (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1817)
Perca robusta Couch, 1832 (ambiguous synonym) 1 literature reference for Perca robusta Couch, 1832
Serranus aeneus Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1817 (synonym) 1 literature reference for Serranus aeneus Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1817
Common names:
Common name Transliteration Language Country
Kern i bardhe - Albanian Albania Click here to show the literature
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Loukouz - Arabic Libya Click here to show the literature
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Louqous Ramly Dyby - Arabic Lebanon Click here to show the literature
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Mennani - Arabic Libya Click here to show the literature
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Mennani abiad - Arabic Tunisia Click here to show the literature
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Wakar - Arabic Egypt Click here to show the literature
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ﻲﻧﺎﻨﻣ - Arabic Libya Click here to show the literature
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Arhani - Arabic, Hassaniya Mauritania Click here to show the literature
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Bacalhau - Creole, Portuguese São Tomé Island Click here to show the literature
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Cherne - Creole, Portuguese Cape Verde Islands Click here to show the literature
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Merato - Creole, Portuguese Cape Verde Islands Click here to show the literature
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Mero - Creole, Portuguese Cape Verde Islands Click here to show the literature
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Hvid havaborre - Danish Denmark Click here to show the literature
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Grouper - English United Kingdom Click here to show the literature
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White grouper - English United Kingdom Click here to show the literature
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Toboko - Fon GBE Benin Click here to show the literature
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Fausse morue - French Mauritania Click here to show the literature
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Fausse morue - French Senegal Click here to show the literature
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Mérou - French France Click here to show the literature
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Mérou - French Togo Click here to show the literature
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Mérou blanc - French France Click here to show the literature
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Mérou bronzé - French France Click here to show the literature
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Mérou bronzé - French Mauritania Click here to show the literature
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Serran d'airain - French France Click here to show the literature
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Tiof - French Mauritania Click here to show the literature
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Toboko - Gen-Gbe Benin Click here to show the literature
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Daggar mazury - Hebrew Israel Click here to show the literature
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Cernia bianca - Italian Italy Click here to show the literature
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Cernia bronzina - Italian Italy Click here to show the literature
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Cirenga - Italian Italy(Messina.) Click here to show the literature
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Scirenga - Italian Italy(Catania.) Click here to show the literature
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Tincuni - Italian Italy(Messina.) Click here to show the literature
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Dott tal-faxxi - Maltese Malta Click here to show the literature
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Fellusa tac-cerna - Maltese Malta Click here to show the literature
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青銅石斑魚 Cing tong shih ban yu Mandarin Chinese China Click here to show the literature
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青铜石斑鱼 Qing tong shi ban yu Mandarin Chinese China Click here to show the literature
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Sfyrida - Modern Greek (1453-) Greece Click here to show the literature
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Sphyrida - Modern Greek (1453-) Greece Click here to show the literature
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Βλάχος Vlachos Modern Greek (1453-) Greece Click here to show the literature
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Ροφός Rofos Modern Greek (1453-) Greece Click here to show the literature
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Σφυρίδα Sfyrida Modern Greek (1453-) Greece Click here to show the literature
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Granik szary - Polish Poland Click here to show the literature
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Garoupa - Portuguese Angola Click here to show the literature
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Garoupa branca - Portuguese Guinea-Bissau
Garoupa legítima - Portuguese Cape Verde Islands Click here to show the literature
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Garoupa verde - Portuguese Portugal Click here to show the literature
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Garoupa-legítima - Portuguese Angola Click here to show the literature
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Garoupa-legítima - Portuguese Cape Verde Islands Click here to show the literature
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Garoupa-legítima - Portuguese Portugal Click here to show the literature
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Garoupa-verde - Portuguese Angola Click here to show the literature
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Garoupa-verde - Portuguese Cape Verde Islands Click here to show the literature
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Murianga - Portuguese Angola Click here to show the literature
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Epinefel de arama - Romanian Romania Click here to show the literature
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Meru - Romanian Romania Click here to show the literature
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Kirnja - Serbian Serbia and Montenegro Click here to show the literature
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Cherna de ley - Spanish Spain Click here to show the literature
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Cherne - Spanish Mauritania Click here to show the literature
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Rékott - Susu Guinea(Conakry, Guinea (Ref. 28012).) Click here to show the literature
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Vit grouper - Swedish Sweden Click here to show the literature
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Girida balığı - Turkish Turkey Click here to show the literature
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Kayahanisi balığı - Turkish Turkey Click here to show the literature
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Lahoz - Turkish Turkey Click here to show the literature
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Lahoz balığı - Turkish Turkey Click here to show the literature
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Coof - Wolof Senegal Click here to show the literature
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Khoutch - Wolof Mauritania Click here to show the literature
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Loger - Wolof Mauritania Click here to show the literature
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Loger - Wolof Senegal Click here to show the literature
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Tiof - Wolof Mauritania Click here to show the literature
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Tiof - Wolof Senegal Click here to show the literature
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Xuoo - Wolof Senegal Click here to show the literature
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Classification:
Kingdom Animalia CoL
Phylum Chordata CoL
Class Actinopterygii FishBase
Order Perciformes FishBase
Family Serranidae FishBase
Genus Epinephelus FishBase
Distribution: Eastern Atlantic: along the west coast of Africa to southern Angola, including the southern Mediterranean (Ref. 5222). First record from Corsica, France in 2012 (Ref. 95839). Records from the Canary Islands and Cape Verde are unsubstantiated (Ref. 5222).
Lifezones: Brackish,marine
Additional data: -
Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 19-May-2014
Source database: FishBase, Jan 2015   99%
Bibliographic citation: Froese R. & Pauly D. (eds) (2025). FishBase (version Jan 2015). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 2015 Annual Checklist (Roskov Y., Abucay L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Kunze T., Flann C., Bailly N., Kirk P., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., eds). Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/col. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-8858.
Online resource: http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?ID=426
CoL taxon LSID: urn:lsid:catalogueoflife.org:taxon:29d9d25c-c365-11e4-869f-239583ce8323:col20150401