Serranidae, Swainson, 1839

LARSON, HELEN K., WILLIAMS, REX S. & HAMMER, MICHAEL P., 2013, <strong> An annotated checklist of the fishes of the Northern Territory, Australia </ strong>, Zootaxa 3696 (1), pp. 1-293 : 243-244

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3696.1.1
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persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A97887FA-47F4-FF6B-FF56-8D0FFF7B3F74
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Serranidae
status

Treatment

Serranidae View in CoL View at ENA

(rockcods)

Cephalopholis formosa (Shaw, 1812)

Bluelined Rockcod

Sciaena formosa Shaw , in Shaw and Nodder, 1812: pl.1007 (Vizagapatam, Coromandel coast). Cephalopholis formosa View in CoL — Randall and Heemstra 1991: 45 (Northern Territory; based on misreading of Grant (1982)).

Unconfirmed record.

Cephalopholis sexmaculatus (Rüppell, 1830)

Sixband rockcod

Serranus sexmaculatus Rüppell, 1830: 107 View in CoL (Red Sea).

Cephalopholis coatesi View in CoL — Wei et al. 1972: 44 (Arafura Sea).

Cephalopholis sexmaculatus View in CoL — Russell and Houston 1989: 87 (Arafura Sea).

No specimens from the NT known. Material collected by Wei et al. (1972); occurrence could not be confirmed by specimens with verified location.

Epinephelus diacanthus (Valenciennes, 1828) Spinycheek Grouper View in CoL Serranus diacanthus Valenciennes View in CoL , in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1828: 319 (coast of Malabar).— Zietz 1891: 2

(Northern Territory).

It is not known to what species Zietz was referring. No other specimens of this species are known from the NT.