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family Serranidae - marine fishes: sea basses; sea perches; groupers; jewfish

fish family - any of various families of fish

order Perciformes, order Percomorphi, Perciformes, Percomorphi - one of the largest natural groups of fishes of both marine and fresh water: true perches; basses; tuna

serranid, serranid fish - marine food sport fishes mainly of warm coastal waters

genus Morone, Morone - carnivorous fresh and salt water fishes

sea bass - any of various food and sport fishes of the Atlantic coast of the United States having an elongated body and long spiny dorsal fin

genus Synagrops, Synagrops - a genus of Serranidae

Centropristis, genus Centropristis - sea basses

genus Roccus, Roccus - a genus of Serranidae

genus Polyprion, Polyprion - wreckfish

genus Serranus, Serranus - type genus of the Serranidae: mostly small Pacific sea basses

Epinephelus, genus Epinephelus - genus of groupers or sea bass

genus Paranthias, Paranthias - a genus of Serranidae

genus Mycteroperca, Mycteroperca - groupers

genus Rypticus, Rypticus - a genus of fish of the family Serranidae, including soapfishes

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References in periodicals archive

Groupers of the world (family Serranidae, subfamily Epinephelinae).

Reproductive biology of the leopard grouper Mycteroperca rosacea (Streets, 1877) in the coastal area of Santa Rosalia, BCS, Mexico

curtus has previously been recorded in another serranid fish: Mycteroperca bonaci (Poey, 1860) in the littoral of Bahia and Espirito Santo (Luque et al., 1998), demonstrating the specificity of this sea lice for the fishes of the family Serranidae in the Atlantic Ocean.

First record of sea lice Lepeophtheirus curtus (Copepoda, Caligidae) in sea-farmed Epinephelus marginatus (Serranidae) in Brazil

The genus Acanthistius, included in the speciose family Serranidae (Nelson, 2006; but see Smith and Craig, 2007), is represented by 2 species in the Southwest Atlantic Ocean: Acanthistius brasilianus, which ranges from 15[degrees]S (Brazil) to 36[degrees]S (Uruguay) (Irigoyen et al., 2008) and Acanthistius patachonicus, which ranges from 23[degrees]S in Brazil to 48[degrees]S on the Argentine shelf (Irigoyen et al., 2008), at depths of 0-100 m (Cousseau and Perrotta, 2000).

Early life history of the Argentine sea bass (Acanthistius patachonicus) (Pisces: Serranidae)

The family Serranidae (Perciformes) is one of the largest perciform families with 5 subfamilies, 64 genera and 529 valid species (Eschmeyer & Fong, 2012).

Chelidoperca maculicauda, a new species of perchlet (Teleostei: Serranidae) from the Arabian Sea

Epinephelus striatus (Bloch) Nassau grouper, Family Serranidae

Drawn to the sea: Charles Bradford Hudson (1865-1939), artist, author, army officer, with special notice of his work for the United States Fish Commission and Bureau of Fisheries

Color patterns have often been used as key characters for identifying species within the family Serranidae (Heemstra and Randall 1993).

Color patterns and associated behaviors in the kelp bass, Paralabrax clathratus (Teleostei: Serranidae)