Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Serranidae > Hyporthodus > Hyporthodus nigritus

Hyporthodus nigritus (Jewfish; Grouper; Black jewfish; Black gouper; Warsaw-black jewfish; Warsaw grouper)

Synonyms: Centropristis merus; Epinephelus nigritus; Garrupa nigrita; Serranus nigritus
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Wikipedia Abstract

Hyporthodus nigritus, or the Warsaw grouper, is a species of marine fish in the Serranidae family, found in the Western Atlantic from Massachusetts to the Gulf of Mexico, Cuba, Trinidad, and south to Brazil (Rio de Janeiro). Its natural habitats are open seas, shallow seas, subtidal aquatic beds, and coral reefs. It is threatened by habitat loss.
View Wikipedia Record: Hyporthodus nigritus

Attributes

Migration [1]  Oceanodromous

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary IV 2387149 Florida, United States
Reserva de la Biosfera de Sian Ka'an Biosphere Reserve VI 1312618 Mexico  

Prey / Diet

Ptereleotris helenae (Hovering goby)[2]

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Riede, Klaus (2004) Global Register of Migratory Species - from Global to Regional Scales. Final Report of the R&D-Projekt 808 05 081. 330 pages + CD-ROM
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0