Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Cephalopholis colonus
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Actinopteri
Order
Perciformes
Family
Epinephelidae
Genus
Cephalopholis
Species
colonus
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Paranthias colonus (Valenciennes 1846) based in Fricke, R. et al. (2023). Victor, B. C. et al. (2024) mention: "Cephalopholis colonus replaces Epinephelus colonus or Paranthias colonus since phylogenetic studies show the species is closely related to other Cephalopholis species within the family Epinephelidae (Ma & Craig 2018)".
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
- GBIF Secretariat (2021) GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei Accessed via https://www.gbif.org/species/5284517
- IUCN (2023) The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2022-2 Https://www.iucnredlist.org
- Victor, B. C. Grove, J. S., Long, D. J., Robertson, D. R., Keith, I., Bensted-Smith, W., & Salinas-de-León, P. (2024) List of Fishes of the Galapagos Archipelago, Ecuador (Version 2.0). Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation, 41, 54-111.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Cephalopholis colonus", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=25130. Accessed 2 September 2025.