Snowy grouper
| Snowy grouper | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Serranidae |
| Genus: | Hyporthodus |
| Species: | H. niveatus |
| Binomial name | |
| Hyporthodus niveatus (Valenciennes, 1828) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Epinephelus niveatus (Valenciennes), 1828) | |
The snowy grouper (Hyporthodus niveatus) is a species of marine fish in the Serranidae family. It is found in the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico neighborhood: in Aruba, the Bahamas, Belize, Bermuda, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, French Guiana, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, the United States, and Venezuela.
Sources
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2016). "Hyporthodus niveatus" in FishBase. April 2016 version.
- Thierry, C., Sadovy, Y., Choat, J.H., Bertoncini, A.A., Rocha, L., Ferreira, B. & Craig, M. 2008. Hyporthodus niveatus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2008. Downloaded on 14 July 2016
- niveatus, Serranus Catalog of Fishes, Downloaded on 14 July 2016
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