Cephalopholis nigri ( Günther, 1859 )

González-Lorenzo, J. Gustavo, González-Jiménez, José F. & González, José A., 2021, Review of the family Serranidae (Perciformes) from the Canary Islands (eastern-central Atlantic), with the first records of Serranus hepatus and Epinephelus aeneus, Cybium 45 (2), pp. 141-154 : 145

Cephalopholis nigri ( Günther, 1859)

– Niger hind

Cephalopholis nigri : Brito, 1991: 103 (T); Brito et al., 2002: 216, 230 (T); Falcón et al., 2018: 43, 55 (GC); Báez et al., 2019: suppl. tab. (C).

A tropical and subtropical species, known from Senegal and Ghana ( Cadenat, 1935) to Lobito, Angola, including São Tomé and Príncipe Islands ( Heemstra and Anderson, 2016; Froese and Pauly, 2020); absent from the Azores, Madeira, Selvagens, Canary and Cabo Verde Islands ( Freitas et al., 2019).

A very rare species in the Canary Islands, where it was first recorded in 1988 based on a juvenile collected at 8-10 m depth ( Brito, 1991) and newly recorded in 2018 based on an adult photographed at 25 m depth ( Falcón et al., 2018). Reported maximum size: to 25 cm TL.