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Liopropoma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Serranidae
Subfamily: Epinephelinae
Tribe: Liopropomini
Genus: Liopropoma
T. N. Gill, 1861
Synonyms

Pikea

Liopropoma is a genus of small to medium-small groupers found worldwide in tropical oceans. They are sometimes seen in the marine aquarium trade.

Species

There are currently 31 recognized species of this genus:[1]

References

  1. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Liopropoma". FishBase. May 2016 version.
  2. ^ Baldwin, C.C. & Johnson, G.D. (2014): Connectivity across the Caribbean Sea: DNA Barcoding and Morphology Unite an Enigmatic Fish Larva from the Florida Straits with a New Species of Sea Bass from Deep Reefs off Curaçao. PLoS ONE, 9 (5): e97661.
  3. ^ Baldwin, C.C. & Robertson, D.R. (2014): A new Liopropoma sea bass (Serranidae, Epinephelinae, Liopropomini) from deep reefs off Curaçao, southern Caribbean, with comments on depth distributions of western Atlantic liopropomins. ZooKeys, 409: 71–92.