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Epinephelini 
Taxonomic Serial No.: 643094

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Tribe  
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  Current Standing: valid  
       
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  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: complete   
  Latest Record Review: 2003   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomDeuterostomia   
          PhylumChordata  – cordés, cordado, chordates  
             SubphylumVertebrata  – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates  
                InfraphylumGnathostomata   
                   SuperclassActinopterygii  – ray-finned fishes, spiny rayed fishes, poisson épineux, poissons à nageoires rayonnées  
                      ClassTeleostei   
                         SuperorderAcanthopterygii   
                            OrderPerciformes  – perch-like fishes  
                               SuborderPercoidei   
                                  FamilySerranidae  – groupers, sea basses, bars, mérous, serranidés, cabrillas y meros, sea basses and groupers, serrans  
                                     SubfamilyEpinephelinae   
                                        TribeEpinephelini   
    Direct Children:  
                                           GenusAethaloperca Fowler, 1904  
                                           GenusAlphestes Bloch and Schneider, 1801  
                                           GenusAnyperodon Günther, 1859  
                                           GenusCephalopholis Bloch and Schneider, 1801  
                                           GenusChromileptes Swainson, 1839  
                                           GenusDermatolepis Gill, 1861  
                                           GenusEpinephelides Ogilby, 1899  
                                           GenusEpinephelus Bloch, 1793 – groupers 
                                           GenusGonioplectrus Gill, 1862  
                                           GenusGracila Randall, 1964  
                                           GenusMycteroperca Gill, 1862  
                                           GenusParanthias Guichenot, 1868  
                                           GenusPlectropomus Oken, 1817  
                                           GenusSaloptia Smith, 1964  
                                           GenusTriso Randall, Johnson and Lowe, 1989  
                                           GenusVariola Swainson, 1839  
       

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  Author(s)/Editor(s): Nelson, Joseph S.   
  Publication Date: 1994   
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  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Fishes of the World, Third Edition   
  Page(s): xvii + 600   
  Publisher: John Wiley and Sons   
  Publication Place: New York, New York, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-471-54713-1   
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  Reference for: Epinephelini   
       

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