Serranidae


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Noun1.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
genus Roccus, Roccus - a genus of Serranidae
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 Rypticus, Rypticus - a genus of fish of the family Serranidae, including soapfishes
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References in periodicals archive ?
Effects of a luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone analogue (LHRHa) on the reproductive performance of spotted sand bass Paralabrax maculatofasciatus (Percoidei: Serranidae).
A molecular phylogeny of the groupers of the subfamily Epinephelinae (Serranidae) with a revised classification of the Epinephelini.
Por ejemplo, Garcia (2008) menciona que los pescadores artesanales del Caribe colombiano, anos atras extraian cerca de 20 especies de importancia comercial pertenecientes a familias como Lutjanidae, Scombridae, Carangidae, Centropomidae, Serranidae, Haemulidae y que ahora son escasas; ademas las horas de pesca y la profundidad de captura han aumentado.
Taxa in the small fish category were cardinalfish (Apogon spp.); damselfish (Chromis spp.); small sea basses (Serranidae), including anthiids (Anthiinae); wrasses (Halichoeres spp.); and parrotfish (Labridae).
The relationship between mating system and simultaneous hermaphroditism in the coral reef fish, Hypoplectrus nigricans (Serranidae).
The dusky grouper (Epinephelus marginatus) (Lowe, 1834) is a Serranidae protogynous hermaphrodite species with great ecological importance.
Anatomy and Histology of the digestive system of the carnivorous fish, the brown-spotted grouper, Epinephelus chlorostigma (Pisces; Serranidae) from the Red Sea.
This pattern indicates that these chromosomal regions as poor cytotaxonomic markers, differing from other Atlantic fishes in which the identification of ribosomal cistrons has proved to be efficient to distinguish apparently homogeneous karyotypes, as in Lutjanidae [40], Serranidae [41], and Gerreidae [42] or even population units [43, 44].