Sealife guideThe atlantic creolefishParanthias furcifer
Taxonomy
- Common name: Atlantic creolefish
- French name: Badèche créole
- Spanish name: Cuna lucero,cunaro,canela
- Scientific name: Paranthias furcifer (Valenciennes, 1828)
- Family name: Epinephelidae
- Order name: Perciformes
- Class name: Actinopterygii

The atlantic creolefish (Paranthias furcifer) © Seatraveler | Dreamstime.com
Within the same family

Gag grouper
(Mycteroperca microlepis)
(Mycteroperca microlepis)

Pacific creolefish
(Cephalopholis colonus)
(Cephalopholis colonus)

Coney
(Cephalopholis fulva)
(Cephalopholis fulva)

Speckledfin grouper
(Epinephelus ongus)
(Epinephelus ongus)

Dusky grouper
(Epinephelus marginatus)
(Epinephelus marginatus)

Peacock grouper
(Cephalopholis argus)
(Cephalopholis argus)

Tomato grouper
(Cephalopholis sonnerati)
(Cephalopholis sonnerati)

Halfspotted grouper
(Cephalopholis hemistiktos)
(Cephalopholis hemistiktos)
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(Corythoichthys haematopterus)
(Corythoichthys haematopterus)
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