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The green jobfish (Aprion virescens), also known as the gray jobfish, gray snapper, [3] or slender snapper, and in Hawaiian as uku, [3] is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a snapper belonging to the family Lutjanidae. It is found in the Indo-Pacific region.
The state encompasses nearly the entire volcanic Hawaiian Island chain, comprising hundreds of islands spread over 1,500 miles (2,400 km). At the southeastern end of the archipelago , the eight "main islands" are (from the northwest to southeast) Niʻihau , Kauaʻi , Oʻahu , Molokaʻi , Lānaʻi , Kahoʻolawe , Maui , and Hawaiʻi .
Ta'ape: common bluestripe snapper; To'au: blacktail snapper; ʻŪʻū: squirrelfish (menpachi) Uhu: mature parrotfish; ʻŪkīkiki: Brigham's snapper (gindai) Uku: gray jobfish/snapper; Ula: Hawaiian spiny lobster; Ula pāpapa: slipper lobster; ʻUlaʻula koaʻe: Longtail snapper (onaga) Ulua: mature thicklip trevally; Ulua kihikihi: threadfin jack
The mangrove snapper or gray snapper (Lutjanus griseus) is a species of snapper native to the western Atlantic Ocean from Massachusetts to Brazil, the Gulf of Mexico, Bermuda, and the Caribbean Sea. The species can be found in a wide variety of habitats, including brackish and fresh waters. It is commercially important and is sought as a game fish.
Local Name Hawaiian language Name Common Name Scientific Name ehu: ʻulaʻula: squirrelfish snapper: Etelis carbunculus: gindai: ʻukikiki: flower or Brigham's snapper
The mangrove red snapper (Lutjanus argentimaculatus), also known as mangrove jack, grey snapper, creek red bream, Stuart evader, dog bream, purple sea perch, red bream, red perch, red reef bream, river roman, or rock barramundi (though it is not closely related to bream, jack, or barramundi), is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a snapper belonging to the family Lutjanidae.
Cynoscion acoupa, the acoupa weakfish, blacktail basher or grey snapper, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Sciaenidae, the drums and croakers. This fish is found in the western Atlantic .
Kyphosus sectatrix, the Bermuda chub, Pacific drummer, beaked chub, grey drummer, Pacific chub or white chub, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a sea chub from the family Kyphosidae. This species is found in tropical and subtropical coastal waters worldwide.