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Polyprion americanus (Wreck-fish; Wreckfish; Wreck bass; Stone bass; Sea rock perch; Sea bass; Moeone; Longnose hapuku; Hapuka; Hapuka cod; Groper; Cherna; Bass groper; Bass; Atlantic wreckfish; Wrek fish)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The bass groper, Polyprion moeone, is a wreckfish of the genus Polyprion, found around southern Australia, and New Zealand, at depths between 30 and 800 m on rocky reefs on the upper continental shelf. Its length is between 60 and 200 cm.
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Attributes

Migration [1]  Oceanodromous

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Tsitsikamma National Park II 34343 Southern Cape, South Africa  

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Calicobenedenia polyprioni[6]
Scolex pleuronectis[6]

External References

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
♦ 2ALIMENTAÇÃO DO CHERNE-POVEIRO POLYPRION AMERICANUS (POLYPRIONIDAE, TELEOSTEI) NO SUL DO BRASIL, MÔNICA BRICK PERES E MANUEL HAIMOVICI, Atlântica, Rio Grande, 25(2): 201-208, 2003
♦ 3Feeding habits of some demersal fish on the Charleston Bump off the southeastern United States, Sarah F. Goldman and George R. Sedberry, ICES Journal of Marine Science (2011), 68(2), 390–398.
♦ 4CephBase - Cephalopod (Octopus, Squid, Cuttlefish and Nautilus) Database
♦ 5Jorrit 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.
♦ 6Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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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