Epinephelus adscensionis (Osbeck, 1765)

– Rock hind

Cephalopholis cf. cruentata: Falcón, 2015 (PhD Thesis).

Epinephelus adscensionis: Falcón et al., 2018: 42, 55 (GC); Báez et al., 2019: suppl. tab. (C) (as to be confirmed).

An amphi-Atlantic species with warm affinity; a wideranging species in the Atlantic (Craig et al., 2011). Western Atlantic: from Massachusetts, USA and Bermuda to southern Brazil, including Vila dos Remedios, Abrolhos, Fernando de Noronha and Trindade islands. Central Atlantic: Bonaparte Seamount, and Ascension and St. Helena Islands. Eastern Atlantic: São Tomé and Príncipe (Craig et al., 2011; Heemstra and Anderson, 2016; Froese and Pauly, 2020). Reports of this species from the Azores and Cabo Verde Islands (Freitas et al., 2019), as well as from South Africa are unsubstantiated (Froese and Pauly, 2020).

It has been observed twice off the island of Gran Canaria with one individual each sighting (Falcón, 2015 as Cephalopholis cf. cruentata; Falcón et al., 2018). Reported maximum size: to 45 cm TL.