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Epinephelus striatus (Striped weakfish)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The Nassau grouper (Epinephelus striatus) is one of the large number of perciform fishes in the family Serranidae commonly referred to as groupers. It is the most important of the groupers for commercial fishery in the West Indies, but has been endangered by overfishing.
View Wikipedia Record: Epinephelus striatus

Endangered Species

Status: Critically Endangered
View IUCN Record: Epinephelus striatus

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  30.314 lbs (13.75 kg)
Maximum Longevity [3]  16 years
Migration [2]  Oceanodromous

Protected Areas

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Carcharhinus perezii (Caribbean reef shark)[4]
Epinephelus striatus (Striped weakfish)[4]
Sotalia fluviatilis (Tucuxi)[8]

Consumers

External References

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Citations

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♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 2Riede, 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
♦ 3Frimpong, E.A., and P. L. Angermeier. 2009. FishTraits: a database of ecological and life-history traits of freshwater fishes of the United States. Fisheries 34:487-495.
♦ 4Jorrit 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.
♦ 5Queen Conch Predators: Not a Roadblock to Mariculture, Darryl E. Jory and Edwin S. Iversen, Proc. Gulf Caribb. Fish. Inst. 35:108-111. (1983)
♦ 6Food Habits of Reef Fishes of the West Indies, John E. Randall, Stud. Trop. Oceanogr. 5, 665–847 (1967)
♦ 7"The food of Cynoscion striatus (Cuvier) (Pisces: Sciaenidae) in the Bahía Blanca area, Argentina", A. Lopez Cazorla, Fisheries Research Volume 28, Issue 4, December 1996, Pages 371–379
♦ 8Sotalia fluviatilis, Vera M. F. da Silva and R. C. Best, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 527, pp. 1-7 (1996)
♦ 9Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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