Cephalopholis nigri (Günther, 1859)

– Niger hind

Cephalopholis nigri: Brito, 1991: 103 (T); Brito et al., 2002: 216, 230 (T); Falcón et al., 2018: 43, 55 (GC); Báez et al., 2019: suppl. tab. (C).

A tropical and subtropical species, known from Senegal and Ghana (Cadenat, 1935) to Lobito, Angola, including São Tomé and Príncipe Islands (Heemstra and Anderson, 2016; Froese and Pauly, 2020); absent from the Azores, Madeira, Selvagens, Canary and Cabo Verde Islands (Freitas et al., 2019).

A very rare species in the Canary Islands, where it was first recorded in 1988 based on a juvenile collected at 8-10 m depth (Brito, 1991) and newly recorded in 2018 based on an adult photographed at 25 m depth (Falcón et al., 2018). Reported maximum size: to 25 cm TL.