Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Hyporthodus cifuentesi
Cabrilla gallina, gallina, norteño, Olive grouper, norteño grouper
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Teleostei
Order
Perciformes
Family
Serranidae
Genus
Hyporthodus
Species
cifuentesi
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Epinephelus cifuentesi Lavenberg & Grove, 1993 ( Ahyong, S., et al., 2023).
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: (Epinephelus cifuentesi) Restricted to the eastern Pacific, known only from off the Gulf of Nicoya, Costa Rica, and Galápagos.
- Ahyong, S. Boyko, C.B., Bailly, N., Bernot, J., Bieler, R, ... Williams, D.M., Williams, G., Wilson, R., Witkowski, J., Wyatt, N., Wylezich, C., Xavier, J., Xu, K., Zanol, J., Zeidler, W., Zhao, Z., Zullini, A. (2023) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
- Grove, J.S. Long, D.J., Robertson, D.R. & Victor, B.C. (2022) List of Fishes of the Galapagos Archipelago, Ecuador. Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation, 39, 14–22.
- Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
- IUCN (2023) The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2022-2 Https://www.iucnredlist.org
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"Galapagos Species Database, Hyporthodus cifuentesi", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=24752. Accessed 5 November 2026.