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The Lutjaninae are represented in the fossil record as far back as the 48.6 million years ago from the Eocene where specimens have been found in the United Kingdom and Louisiana. More recent specimens are known from the Miocene in Mexico and Florida and the Quaternary of the Turks and Caicos Islands .
Lutjanus was created in 1790 by the German physician and zoologist Marcus Elieser Bloch with Lutjanus lutjanus as its type species by tautonymy. [1] It is the type genus of the subfamily Lutjaninae and the family Lutjanidae.
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Lutjanidae or snappers are a family of perciform fish, mainly marine, but with some members inhabiting estuaries, feeding in fresh water.The family includes about 113 species.
Lutjaninae (5 C, 8 P) P. Paradicichthyinae (3 P) Pages in category "Lutjanidae" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not reflect ...
It is now classified as the only species in the monotypic genus Rhomboplites which was created by Theodore Nicholas Gill in 1862, which is within the subfamily Lutjaninae. [4] The generic name Rhomboplites is a compound of rhombo meaning rhombus-shaped and hoplites meaning "armed" a reference to rhombic shape of the patch of vomerine teeth.
The bigeye snapper (Lutjanus lutjanus), also known as the bigeye seaperch, red sea lined snapper, golden striped snapper, rosy snapper, yellow snapper, or simply snapper, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a snapper belonging to the family Lutjanidae.
Lutjanus erythropterus was first formally described in 1790 by the German physician and zoologist Marcus Elieser Bloch with the type locality given as Nagasaki. [3] The specific name is a compound of erythros meaning “red” and pterus meaning “fin”, a reference to the red median fins.