Barred hogfish

The barred hogfish (Bodianus scrofa) is a species of wrasse native to the eastern Atlantic Ocean, where it occurs around the Macaronesian island groups of the Azores, Madeira, the Canary Islands and Cape Verde. This species occurs on rocky reefs at depths of 20 to 200 m (66 to 656 ft). It can reach a length of 43 cm (17 in), though most do not exceed 30 cm (12 in). It is of minor importance to local commercial fisheries.[2] This species was formally described as Labrus scrofa in 1839 by Achille Valenciennes with the type locality given as the Cape Verde Islands.[3]

Barred hogfish
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Labriformes
Family: Labridae
Genus: Bodianus
Species:
B. scrofa
Binomial name
Bodianus scrofa
(Valenciennes, 1839)
Synonyms
  • Labrus scrofa Valenciennes, 1839
  • Cossyphus scrofa (Valenciennes, 1839)
  • Diastodon scrofa (Valenciennes, 1839)
  • Lepidaplois scrofa (Valenciennes, 1839)
  • Pseudolepidaplois scrofa (Valenciennes, 1839)
  • Trochocopus scrofa (Valenciennes, 1839)
  • Crenilabrus caninus R. T. Lowe, 1839
  • Pseudolepidaplois pfaffi Bauchot & Blanc, 1961

References
  1. Russell, B.; Afonso, P. & Pollard, D. (2010). "Bodianus scrofa". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2010: e.T187495A8551178. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-4.RLTS.T187495A8551178.en.
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). "Bodianus scrofa" in FishBase. August 2013 version.
  3. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Labrus scrofa". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 28 December 2019.

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