Species details : Plectropomus pessuliferus (Fowler, 1904)

Accepted scientific name:
Plectropomus pessuliferus (Fowler, 1904) (accepted name) 1 literature reference for Plectropomus pessuliferus (Fowler, 1904)
Synonyms:
Perca miniata c Forsskål, 1775 (ambiguous synonym) 1 literature reference for Perca miniata c Forsskål, 1775
Plectropoma maculatum a (Playfair, 1867) (ambiguous synonym) 1 literature reference for Plectropoma maculatum a (Playfair, 1867)
Plectropoma maculatum d Playfair & Günther, 1867 (ambiguous synonym) 1 literature reference for Plectropoma maculatum d Playfair & Günther, 1867
Plectropoma pessuliferum Fowler, 1904 (synonym) 1 literature reference for Plectropoma pessuliferum Fowler, 1904
Plectropomus maculatus (non Bloch, 1790) (misapplied name) 1 literature reference for Plectropomus maculatus (non Bloch, 1790)
Plectropomus pessulifer (Fowler, 1904) (synonym) 1 literature reference for Plectropomus pessulifer (Fowler, 1904)
Plectropomus pessuliferus pessuliferus (Fowler, 1904) (synonym) 1 literature reference for Plectropomus pessuliferus pessuliferus (Fowler, 1904)
Common names:
Common name Transliteration Language Country
Luiperdkabeljou - Afrikaans South Africa Click here to show the literature reference
Nagil - Arabic Saudi Arabia Click here to show the literature reference
لُؤز مرجان تائِه - Arabic - Click here to show the literature reference
Leopard grouper - English South Africa Click here to show the literature reference
Roving coralgrouper - English - Click here to show the literature reference
Roving coralgrouper - English Hawaii Click here to show the literature reference
Violet coral trout - English Indonesia Click here to show the literature reference
Mérou-loche vagabonde - French - Click here to show the literature reference
Saumonée léopard - French Maldives Click here to show the literature reference
蠕線鰓棘鱸 Ru sian sai ji lu Mandarin Chinese China Click here to show the literature reference
蠕线鳃棘鲈 - Mandarin Chinese - Click here to show the literature reference
蠕线鳃棘鲈 Ru xian sai ji lu Mandarin Chinese China Click here to show the literature reference
Garoupa de coral - Portuguese Mozambique Click here to show the literature reference
Mero errante - Spanish - Click here to show the literature reference
Ca mu cham - Vietnamese Viet Nam Click here to show the literature reference
Classification:
Kingdom Animalia CoL
Phylum Chordata CoL
Class Actinopterygii FishBase
Order Perciformes FishBase
Family Serranidae FishBase
Genus Plectropomus FishBase
Distribution: Indo-Pacific: Red Sea, Zanzibar, Maldives, St. Brandon's Shoals, Sri Lanka, Chagos, Nazareth Bank, Sumatra, and Fiji. Recently recorded from Tonga (Ref. 53797). Subspecies, Plectropomus pessuliferus marisburi occurs in the Red Sea, while Plectropomus pessuliferus pessuliferus from the rest of the Indo-Pacific region (Ref. 3150). Often misidentified as Plectropomus maculatus.
Lifezones: 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=7430
CoL taxon LSID: urn:lsid:catalogueoflife.org:taxon:fbb10f5c-ac8e-11e3-805d-020044200006:col20150401

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