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Michelle T. Schärer-Umpierre, license: CC BY-NC 4.0, source: contributed by owner
Superclass:
Osteichthyes
Class:
Teleostei
Order:
Perciformes
Suborder:
Serranoidei
Family:
Epinephelidae
Genus:
Epinephelus
Species:
striatus
Common:
Nassau grouper
Climates:
Tropical
Temperate
Subtropical
Boreal
Waters:
Marine
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Regions:
Atlantic, Southwest
Atlantic, Western Central
Description
Sound Name: Unnamed
Citable References
Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab (ML116823)
Sound Names: Boom; Grunt Thump; Rumble
Kaschner (2012)
Fish and Mowbray (1970)
Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab (ML116820)
Sound Name: Chorus
Schärer et al. (2012)
Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab (ML116826)
Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab (ML116813)
Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab (ML116814)
Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab (ML116821)
Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab (ML116833)
Sound Name: Grunt Thump
Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab (ML116815)
Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab (ML116819)
Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab (ML116827)
Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab (ML116818)
Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab (ML116812)
Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab (ML116822)
Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab (ML116837)
Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab (ML112345)
Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab (ML116839)
Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab (ML116831)
Sound Name: Pulse
Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab (ML112343)
Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab (ML116829)
Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab (ML116816)
Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab (ML116832)
Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab (ML116817)
Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab (ML112344)
Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab (ML116835)
Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab (ML116811)
Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab (ML116840)
Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab (ML116836)
Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab (ML116838)
Cherubin, L. M., Dalgleish, F., Ibrahim, A. K., Scharer-Umpierre, M., Nemeth, R. S., Matthews, A., Appeldoorn, R. 2020. Fish Spawning Aggregations Dynamics as inferred from a Novel, Persistent Presence Robotic Approach. Frontiers in Marine Science, 6(779).
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Species Identified
Sound Detected
Active
Passive Feeding
Other Passive
Morphophysiological
Auditory
Visual
Wilson, K. C. 2019. Passive Acoustic Monitoring of Epinephelids in Little Cayman, Cayman Islands. PhD Dissertation, University of California San Diego.
Moulton, J. M. 1958. The Acoustical Behavior of Some Fishes in the Bimini Area. Biological Bulletin, 114(3): 357-374.
Schärer, M. T., Rowell, T. J., Nemeth, M. I., Appeldoorn, R. S. 2012. Sound Production Associated with Reproductive Behavior of Nassau Grouper Epinephelus striatus at Spawning Aggregations. Endangered Species Research, 19(1): 29-38.
Bordeau, B. 1982. [Influences of the Acoustic Environment on the Marine and Freshwater Fishes. Application to Fisheries]. PhD Dissertation, Université de Paris.
Locascio, J. V., Burton, M. L. 2016. A Passive Acoustic Survey of Fish Sound Production at Riley’s Hump within Tortugas South Ecological Reserve: Implications Regarding Spawning and Habitat Use. Fishery Bulletin, 114(1): 103-116.
Tavolga, W. N., Popper, A. N., Fay, R. R. (Eds.). 1981. Hearing and Sound Communication in Fishes. Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Rowell, T. J., Nemeth, R. S., Schärer, M. T., Appeldoorn, R. S. 2015. Fish Sound Production and Acoustic Telemetry Reveal Behaviors and Spatial Patterns Associated with Spawning Aggregations of Two Caribbean Groupers. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 518: 239-254.
Rowell, T. J., Schärer, M. T., Appeldoorn, R. S. 2018. Description of a New Sound Produced by Nassau Grouper at Spawning Aggregation Sites. Gulf and Caribbean Research, 29(1): 22-26.
Wilson, K. C., Semmens, B. X., Pattengill-Semmens, C., McCoy, C., Širović, A. 2020. Potential for Grouper Acoustic Competition and Partitioning at a Multispecies Spawning Site off Little Cayman, Cayman Islands. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 634: 127-146.
Ibrahim, A. K., Chérubin, L. M., Zhuang, H., Umpierre, M. T. S., Dalgleish, F., Erdol, N., Ouyang, B., Dalgleish, A. 2018. An Approach for Automatic Classification of Grouper Vocalizations with Passive Acoustic Monitoring. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 143(2): 666-676.
Ibrahim, A. K. 2019. Multi-Model Deep Learning for Grouper Sound Classification and Seizure Prediction. PhD Dissertation, Florida Atlantic University.
Wilson, K. C., Semmens, B. X., Gittings, S. R., Pattengill-Semmens, C., Širović, A. 2019. Development and Evaluation of a Passive Acoustic Localization Method To Monitor Fish Spawning Aggregations and Measure Source Levels. OCEANS 2019 MTS/IEEE SEATTLE, 2019: 1-7.
Fish, M. P., Mowbray, W. H. 1970. Sounds of Western North Atlantic Fishes, A Reference File of Biological Underwater Sounds. The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, MD.
Hazlett, B., Winn, H. E. 1962. Sound Producing Mechanism of the Nassau Grouper, Epinephalus striatus. Copeia, 1962(2): 447-449.