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Epinephelidae

Soapfishes

Familyaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 1776907ITIS 551018key worms:1776907
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2026-10-04: itis_id 551018 via WoRMS external link; WoRMS Epinephelinae unaccepted -> Epinephelidae (worms:1776907)

Groupers are a diverse group of marine ray-finned fish in the family Epinephelidae, in the order Perciformes.W CalCOFI holds 43 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1959 and 2022, as larva, across 5 taxa under it.R

43
observations
43
records
37
sampling events
1959–2022
years
2
datasets
2
species under it
larva
life stages
Photograph of Epinephelidae
Photo · Pauline Walsh Jacobson · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Observed in 1 dataset
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One row per dataset, and beside it one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

  • 37 obs37 events1959–2003larva
    name used: Epinephelinae · code 427 synonym re-keyed
    name used: Grammistini Soapfishes · code 438 synonym re-keyed id conflict

Ways inExplorerdb-queryERDDAPRPythonThis page as JSON

Code and endpoints ERDDAP · R · Python · JSON
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:1776907%22

Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.19, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

How big is it not on record

Not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Under it 3 taxa · Cephalopholis most observed
Life stages larva
  • Ichthyoplankton larva

The stages each dataset records for it, from the release's obs_bio.life_stage.

Lineage 11 ranks · Biota to Percoidei
Credits silhouette · photo · text
  • Silhouette · Carlos Cano-Barbacil · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Sander lucioperca · source
  • Photo · Pauline Walsh Jacobson · CC BY 4.0 · inat · source
  • Text · Wikipedia, “Grouper” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1366882318
Elsewhere Wikidata

Wikidata

The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.

Cite the release, v2026.10.19

Cite the release, v2026.10.19; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗