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Caesioperca lepidoptera (Red perch; Oia; Butterfly sea perch; Butterfly perch)

Synonyms: Anthias richardsonii; Epinephelus lepidopterus
Language: Mandarin Chinese; Maori

Wikipedia Abstract

The butterfly perch (Caesioperca lepidoptera) is a marine species of ray-finned fish in the subfamily Anthiinae, part of the sea bass family Serranidae. This fish is found in the eastern Indian Ocean, and the southwestern Pacific Ocean, including the waters around southern Australia and New Zealand. It is sometimes known as the red perch.
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Prey / Diet

Acartia clausi[1]
Centropages aucklandicus[1]
Nyctiphanes australis[1]
Rhincalanus cornutus[1]
Temora turbinata[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Hepatoxylon trichiuri[2]
Lecithocladium excisum[2]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1B. C. Russell (1983): The food and feeding habits of rocky reef fish of north‐eastern New Zealand, New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 17:2, 121-145
♦ 2Gibson, 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