Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Serranidae > Cephalopholis > Cephalopholis argus

Cephalopholis argus (Argus grouper; Blue spotted grouper; Bluespotted grouper; Blue-spotted grouper; Grouper; Peacock cod; Peacock coral cod; Peacock grouper; Peacock hind; Peacock rock cod; Peacock rockcod; Peacock rock-cod; Seabass; Worldwide-peacock rockcod; Black rock-cod)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Cephalopholis argus, also known as roi, bluespotted grouper, argus grouper, peacock hind, peacock grouper or peacock rockcod, is a fish from the Indo-Pacific which is variously a commercial gamefish, an invasive species, and occasionally an aquarium resident. Its species name comes from its resemblance to the "hundred staring eyes" of the monster Argus in Greek mythology.
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Christmas Island National Park II 21698 Christmas Island, Australia
Pulu Keeling National Park II 6469 Cocos (Keeling) Islands    

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Cephalopholis hemistiktos (duskyfin grouper)1
Cephalopholis miniata (bluespot rockcod)2

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Procamallanus istiblenni[3]
Pseudorhabdosynochus argus[4]
Scolex polymorphus[3]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jorrit 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.
♦ 2Food habits and prey selection of three species of groupers from the genus Cephalopholis (Serranidae: Teleostei), Muki Shpigel & Lev Fishelson, Environmental Biology of Fishes Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 67-73, 1989
♦ 3Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 4Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
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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