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genus Hoplopagrus Gill, 1861; genus Lutjanus Bloch, 1790; genus Macolor Bleeker, 1860; genus Ocyurus Gill, 1862; genus Pinjalo Bleeker, 1873; genus Rhomboplites Gill, 1862; A taxonomic study of snappers within the subfamily Lutjaninae in the tropical western Atlantic Ocean indicated that the monotypic genera Ocyurus and Rhomboplites sit within ...
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. The family includes about 113 species.
Lutjanus blackfordii Goode & T. H. Bean, 1878 The northern red snapper ( Lutjanus campechanus ) is a species of marine ray-finned fish , a snapper belonging to the family Lutjanidae . It is native to the western Atlantic Ocean , the Caribbean Sea , and the Gulf of Mexico , where it inhabits environments associated with reefs .
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. The name is derived from a local Indonesian name for snappers, ikhan Lutjang. [2]
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.
Several species from the genus Lutjanus: Lutjanus campechanus, Northern red snapper, commonly referred to as red snapper in the Gulf of Mexico and western Atlantic Ocean; Lutjanus purpureus, Southern red snapper, is one of several Lutjanus species called red snapper (or by the name huachinango in Mexico) or pargo in South America
Lutjanus fulviflamma frequently forms large mixed species schools with the bluestripe snapper (Lutjanus kasmira) and the bigeye snapper (Lutjanus lutjanus) as adults. They are predators which feed on fishes and crustaceans. [2] Off eastern Africa and New Caledonia spawning takes place in the Spring and Summer from August to March. [6]
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. It is native to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean.