Dr. Gerald (Gerry) Robert Allen, Australien
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Rosenblatt & Zahuranec, 1967
Very special thanks fort he first photo of Mycteroperca prionura to the famous Australien ichthyologist Dr. Gerry R. Allen.
Dr. Allen has taken his photo at Mexico.
Mycteroperca prionura is an eastern central Pacific species narrowly distributed from the Gulf of California south to Jalisco (Mexico), including provinces of Baja California, Baja California Sur, Sonora, Sinaloa, Nayarit and Jalisco.
The Sawtail grouper is found on rocky reefs, and common on fields of large boulders with gorgonians and black corals.
The grouper feed on fishes and crustaceans.
Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopteri (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Percoidei (Suborder) > Serranidae (Family) > Epinephelinae (Subfamily) > Mycteroperca (Genus) > Mycteroperca prionura (Species)
Very special thanks fort he first photo of Mycteroperca prionura to the famous Australien ichthyologist Dr. Gerry R. Allen.
Dr. Allen has taken his photo at Mexico.
Mycteroperca prionura is an eastern central Pacific species narrowly distributed from the Gulf of California south to Jalisco (Mexico), including provinces of Baja California, Baja California Sur, Sonora, Sinaloa, Nayarit and Jalisco.
The Sawtail grouper is found on rocky reefs, and common on fields of large boulders with gorgonians and black corals.
The grouper feed on fishes and crustaceans.
Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopteri (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Percoidei (Suborder) > Serranidae (Family) > Epinephelinae (Subfamily) > Mycteroperca (Genus) > Mycteroperca prionura (Species)
