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Red Snapper (fish)
Red snapper is a common name of several fish species. It may refer to: * 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 ** Red snappers from Southeast Asian waters may be ''Lutjanus'' species such as ''Lutjanus argentimaculatus'', ''Lutjanus malabaricus'' and ''Lutjanus sebae'' * Several species from the genus ''Sebastes'': ** ''Sebastes miniatus'' ** ''Sebastes ruberrimus'', commonly referred to as red snapper along the Pacific coast of North America * Several species from the genus ''Centroberyx'': ** '' Centroberyx affinis'', commonly referred to as red snapper in New Zealand ** '' Centroberyx gerrardi'', one of several species commonly referred to as red snapper in Australi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lutjanus
''Lutjanus'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fish, snappers belonging to the family Lutjanidae. They are found in the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans. They are predatory fish usually found in tropical and subtropical reefs, and mangrove forests. This genus also includes two species that only occur in fresh and brackish waters. Taxonomy ''Lutjanus'' was created in 1790 by the German physician and zoologist Marcus Elieser Bloch with ''Lutjanus lutjanus'' as its type species by tautonymy. 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''. Bloch erroneously stated that the type locality for ''L. lutjanus'' was Japan when the name he gave it suggested that it was collected in the East Indies. A taxonomic study of snappers within the subfamily Lutjaninae in the tropical western Atlantic Ocean indicated that the at monotypic genera ''Ocyurus'' and ''Rhomboplites'' sit within ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lutjanus Campechanus
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. This species is commercially important and is also sought-after as a game fish. Taxonomy The northern red snapper was first formally described in 1860 as ''Mesoprion campechanus'' by the Cuban zoologist Felipe Poey with the type locality given as Campeche in Mexico. The specific name reflects the type locality. Characteristics The northern red snapper's body is very similar in shape to other snappers, such as the mangrove snapper, mutton snapper, lane snapper, and dog snapper. All feature a sloped profile, medium-to-large scales, a spiny dorsal fin, and a laterally compressed body. Northern red snapper have short, sharp, needle-like teeth, but they lack the prominent upper canine teeth found on th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lutjanus Purpureus
''Lutjanus purpureus'', the southern red snapper or Caribbean red snapper, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a snapper belonging to the family Lutjanidae. It is native to the western Atlantic Ocean as well the Caribbean Sea. Taxonomy ''Lutjanus purpureus'' was first formally described in 1867 as ''Mesoprion purpureus'' by the Cuban zoologist Felipe Poey, no type locality was given but it is most probably Cuba.It is not clear what species Poey was describing as he may have based his description on a painting with am ambiguous subject. It has been treated as a synonym of the Northern red snapper (''Lutjanus campechanus''). The specific name ''purpureus'' means “purple”, reinforcing the ambiguity of Poey's description, as this is not a purple coloured fish. Past authors have referred to this species as ''Lutjanus aya'' but it has been shown that ''Bodianus aya'' Bloch, 1790 is not a snapper, but is more likely to be a drum. Description ''Lutjanus purpureus'' has a moder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huachinango
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. This species is commercially important and is also sought-after as a game fish. Taxonomy The northern red snapper was first formally described in 1860 as ''Mesoprion campechanus'' by the Cuban zoologist Felipe Poey with the type locality given as Campeche in Mexico. The specific name reflects the type locality. Characteristics The northern red snapper's body is very similar in shape to other snappers, such as the mangrove snapper, mutton snapper, lane snapper, and dog snapper. All feature a sloped profile, medium-to-large scales, a spiny dorsal fin, and a laterally compressed body. Northern red snapper have short, sharp, needle-like teeth, but they lack the prominent upper canine teeth found on th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lutjanus Argentimaculatus
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, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a snapper belonging to the family Lutjanidae. It has a wide Indo-Pacific range and has recently been recorded in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Taxonomy The mangrove red snapper was first formally described in 1775 as ''Sciaena argentimaculata'' by the Swedish speaking Finnish born explorer and naturalist Peter Forsskål with the type locality given as the Red Sea. The specific name is a compound of ''argentum'' meaning “silver” and ''maculatus'' meaning “spots”, a possible reference to the white edging to each of the scales on this species. Description Coloration of the mangrove red snapper ranges from burnt orange, to copper, to bronze and dark reddish-brown, depending on its age and environment. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lutjanus Malabaricus
''Lutjanus malabaricus'', the Malabar blood snapper, saddletail snapper, large-mouthed nannygai, large-mouthed sea-perch, Malabar snapper, nannygai, red bass, red bream, red emperor, red Jew, red snapper, saddletail seaperch, scarlet emperor or scarlet sea-perch, 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, where it is found east to Fiji and Japan. Taxonomy ''Lutjanus malabaricus'' was first formally described in 1801 as ''Sparus malabaricus'' by the German naturalists Marcus Elieser Bloch and Johann Gottlob Schneider with the type locality as the Coromandel coast in eastern India. The specific name ''malabaricus '' means “of Malabar”, a coastal region of southern India. Description ''Lutjanus malabaricus'' has a relatively deep body, which has a standard length that is 2.2 to 2.8 times as long as the body at its deepest point. It has a steeply sloped forehead, with a conca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lutjanus Sebae
''Lutjanus sebae'', also known as red emperor, emperor red snapper, emperor snapper, government bream, king snapper, queenfish or red kelp, 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. Taxonomy ''Lutjanus sebae'' was first formally described in 1816 as ''Diacope sebae'' by the French zoologist Georges Cuvier, Cuvier did not give a type locality but it is thought to be either the Coromandel Coast of India or so where in Indonesia. The specific name honours Albertus Seba, a Dutch pharmacist, zoologist and natural history collector, who published a ''Thesaurus'' of animal specimens with beautiful engravings in 1734. This included examples of marine life from the Indo-Pacific, including an illustration of the emperor red snapper. Description ''Lutjanus sebae'' has a very deep body, its standard length being just over twice its depth. The forehead is steeply sloped, the snout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sebastes
''Sebastes'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the subfamily Sebastinae part of the family Scorpaenidae, most of which have the common name of rockfish. A few are called ocean perch, sea perch or redfish instead. They are found in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Taxonomy ''Sebastes'' was first described as a genus in 1829 by the French zoologist Georges Cuvier, the Dutch ichthyologist Pieter Bleeker designated ''Perca norvegica'', which may have been originally described by the Norwegian zoologist Peter Ascanius in 1772, as the type species in 1876. The genus is the type genus of both the tribe Sebastini and the subfamily Sebastinae, although some authorities treat these as the subfamily Sebastinae and the family Sebastidae, separating the Sebastidae as a distinct family from the Scorpaenidae. but other authorities place it in the Perciformes in the suborder Scorpaenoidei. Some authorities subdivide this large genus into subgenera as follows: * ''Sebastes'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sebastes Miniatus
''Sebastes miniatus'', the vermilion rockfish, vermilion seaperch, red snapper, red rock cod, and rasher, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the subfamily Sebastinae, the rockfishes, part of the family Scorpaenidae. It is native to the waters of the Pacific Ocean off western North America from Baja California to Alaska. Taxonomy ''Sebastes miniatus'' was first formally described in 1880 by the American ichthyologists David Starr Jordan and Charles Henry Gilbert with the type locality given as Santa Barbara and Monterey, California. Some authorities place this species in the subgenus ''Rosicola''. The specific name ''miniatus'' means "bright red" or "scarlet" a reference to the color of the vermilion fins and body. Description ''Sebastes miniatus'' has a rather stocky body shape with the depth of the body being equivalent to just under two fifths of its standard length. It has moderately robust to weak spines on its head, the nasal, preocular, supraocular, po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sebastes Ruberrimus
The yelloweye rockfish (''Sebastes ruberrimus'') is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the subfamily Sebastinae, the rockfishes, part of the family Scorpaenidae. and one of the biggest members of the genus ''Sebastes''. Its name derives from its coloration. It is also locally known as "red snapper", not to be confused with the warm-water Atlantic species ''Lutjanus campechanus'' that formally carries the name red snapper. The yelloweye is one of the world's longest-lived fish species, and is cited to live to a maximum of 114 to 120 years of age. As they grow older, they change in color, from reddish in youth, to bright orange in adulthood, to pale yellow in old age. Yelloweye live in rocky areas and feed on small fish and other rockfish. They reside in the East Pacific and range from Baja California to Dutch Harbor in Alaska. Yelloweye rockfish are prized for their meat, and were declared overfished in 2002, at which time a survey determined that their population, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Centroberyx
''Centroberyx'', often referred to as nannygais, is genus of ray-finned fishes found in the Indian Ocean and western Pacific Ocean, with the greatest species richness off southern Australia. They are reddish in colour and somewhat resemble the related soldierfish. Depending on species, they have a maximum length of . They are found at depths of . Members of this genus are also known from fossils from the Cretaceous.Fossils (Smithsonian Handbooks) by David Ward (Page 219) Species There are currently seven recognized extant species in this genus: * '' Centroberyx affinis'' ( Günther, 1859) (Redfish) * ''Centroberyx australis'' Shimizu & Hutchins, 1987 (Yelloweye nannygai) * ''Centroberyx druzhinini'' (Busakhin, 1981) * '' Centroberyx gerrardi'' ( Günther, 1887) (Bight redfish) * '' Centroberyx lineatus'' (G. Cuvier Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric, Baron Cuvier (; 23 August 1769 – 13 May 1832), known as Georges Cuvier, was a French naturalist and zoologist, sometimes re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Centroberyx Affinis
The eastern nannygai (''Centroberyx affinis''), also known as the redfish, bight redfish, red snapper, golden snapper or koarea, is an alfonsino of the genus ''Centroberyx''. It is found around Australia and New Zealand at depths between on the continental shelf. It can reach lengths of up to SL. It forms schools near the sea floor over rocky reefs and mud at dawn and dusk, splitting up at night to feed on mollusks, crustaceans, and small fish. Its young live in estuaries and shallow coastal waters. Exploited commercially in New South Wales and South Australia, nannygai are considered to be excellent table fish. References * * Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, ''Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand'', (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) External links Fishes of Australia : ''Centroberyx affinis'' eastern nannygai Marine fish of Eastern Australia Fish of New Zealand eastern nannygai eastern nannygai The eastern nannygai (''Centrob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
