Mycteroperca tigris (Valenciennes, 1833)

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 : 148

Mycteroperca tigris (Valenciennes, 1833)

– Tiger grouper

Mycteroperca tigris : Falcón et al., 2018: 41, 55 (GC); Báez et al., 2019: suppl. tab. (C) (as to be confirmed).

A western Atlantic warm-affinity species, occurring from southern Florida and Flower Garden Banks off Texas, the Gulf of Mexico, the Bahamas, Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica, Venezuela, and throughout the Caribbean to Brazil ( Craig et al., 2011; Froese and Pauly, 2020).

It is a very rare non-native species in the Canary Islands, recently first recorded there based on a 50 cm TL adult caught at the Port of Las Palmas , Gran Canaria in February 2018 ( Falcón et al., 2018). However, the record of this species in the Canaries should be considered, for now, as doubtful (see Discussion).