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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.
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.
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 .
Lutjanus gibbus (Forsskål, 1775) (humpback red snapper) Lutjanus goldiei (W. J. Macleay, 1882) (Papuan black snapper) Lutjanus goreensis (Valenciennes, 1830) (Gorean snapper) Lutjanus griseus (Linnaeus, 1758) (grey snapper) Lutjanus guilcheri Fourmanoir, 1959 (yellow-fin red snapper) Lutjanus guttatus (Steindachner, 1869) (spotted rose 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.
The cubera snapper was first formally described as Mesoprion cyanopterus in 1828 by the French zoologist Georges Cuvier with the type locality given as Brazil. [3] The specific name is a compound of cyano meaning "blue" and pterus which means "fin" as Cuvier described it as having bluish-black membranes on its median fins.
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Gray reef sharks and manta rays are common off the island, and Hawaiian monk seals populate its shores, some giving birth to pups there. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] [ 7 ] Green sea turtles bask on the shore in the narrow gap between the main island and Northwest Cape, but they do not breed on Necker Island because the island lacks sandy beaches in which they ...