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Plectropomus pessuliferus, Roving Coralgrouper

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Relation http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/13303/
https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/118359431/100469254
https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/118359431/100469254
 
Title Plectropomus pessuliferus, Roving Coralgrouper
 
Creator Choat, J H
Amorim, P
Law, C
Ma, K
Myers, R
Nair, Rekha J
Pollard, D A
Rhodes, K
Russell, B
Samoilys, Melita
Suharti, S
To, A
 
Subject Coral Reefs
Conservation
Groupers
 
Description Plectropomus pessuliferus is often misidentified as P. maculatus (Heemstra and Randall 1993). Heemstra
and Randall (1993) recognized two subspecies: Plectropomus pessuliferus marisrubri in the Red Sea, and
P. pessuliferus pessuliferus from the remainder of the Indo-Pacific region. Phylogenetic analyses by Ma
et al. (2016) identified P. pessuliferus as a relatively small species with a distribution from the central
Indian ocean to the Coral Triangle with a single record from deep water Tonga. It is the sister species of
P. leopardus and is not directly related to the Red Sea species previously identified as P. pessuliferus
marisrubri.
 
Publisher International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
 
Date 2018
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format text
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/13303/1/Rekha%20J%20Nair_IUCN_UK_2018-2.RLTS.T118359431A100469254.en.2p.PESSULIFERUS.pdf
Choat, J H and Amorim, P and Law, C and Ma, K and Myers, R and Nair, Rekha J and Pollard, D A and Rhodes, K and Russell, B and Samoilys, Melita and Suharti, S and To, A (2018) Plectropomus pessuliferus, Roving Coralgrouper. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2018.