Snapper(s) may refer to:
Animals
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Lutjanidae
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. Some are important food fish. One of the best known is the red snapp ...
, a family of fish known as snappers
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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 ...
'', a fish found in the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic coast of the United States
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Bigeye snapper
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 fam ...
(''Lutjanus lutjanus''), a fish that primarily lives in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, sometimes known as simply "Snapper"
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Cubera snapper
The cubera snapper (''Lutjanus cyanopterus''), also known as the Cuban snapper, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a snapper belonging to the family Lutjanidae. It is native to the western Atlantic Ocean. It is a commercially important spe ...
(''Lutjanus cyanopterus''), native to the western Atlantic Ocean
* Fishes from other families including:
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Australasian snapper, ''Pagrus auratus'', also known as silver seabream
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Eastern nannygai
The eastern nannygai (''Centroberyx affinis''), also known as the redfish, bight redfish, red snapper, golden snapper or koarea, is an Berycidae, alfonsino of the genus ''Centroberyx''. It is found around Australia and New Zealand at depths be ...
, also known as red snapper, ''Centroberyx affinis''
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Bluefish
The bluefish (''Pomatomus saltatrix'') is the only extant species of the family Pomatomidae. It is a marine pelagic fish found around the world in temperate and subtropical waters, except for the northern Pacific Ocean. Bluefish are known as ta ...
(''Pomatomus saltatrix''), of which the smallest are often known as "snappers"
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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 ...
'', some species of which are known as "Pacific snapper" or "red snapper"
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Chelydridae, a family of freshwater turtles of which both extant species are known as snapping turtles, informally shortened to "snapper"
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Common snapping turtle
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Alligator snapping turtle
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Sistrurus catenatus
The massasauga (''Sistrurus catenatus'') is a rattlesnake species found in midwestern North America from southern Ontario to northern Mexico and parts of the United States in between. Like all rattlesnakes, it is a pit viper and is venomous.
Th ...
'', also known as black snapper, a snake
Arts and entertainment
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''The Snapper'' (novel), a 1990 novel by Roddy Doyle
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''The Snapper'' (film), a film based on the above novel
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''Snapper'' (video game), a faithful clone of ''Pac-Man'' for the BBC Micro
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Snapper Music
Snapper Music is an independent record label founded in 1996 by former head of Castle Communications Jon Beecher, Dougie Dudgeon and funded by Mark Levinson from Palan Music Publishing. In 1999, Snapper broke away from its Palan parent company ...
, a UK record label
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Snapper (band), a New Zealand indie rock band
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''Snapper'' (EP)
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Snapper Carr
Lucas "Snapper" Carr is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character was created by Gardner Fox (writer) and Mike Sekowsky (penciller), and made his first appearance in ''The Brave and the Bold'' in ...
, a character in the DC Universe
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Snapper Foster
Snapper Foster is a fictional character on the CBS daytime soap opera ''The Young and the Restless''. An original character since the show's inception, the role was played by William Gray Espy from March 26, 1973 to September 26, 1975, and David ...
, a character on the soap opera ''The Young and the Restless''
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Snapper (puzzle), a mechanical puzzle
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Bang snaps or "snappers", a type of novelty firework
Military
* , eight ships of the Royal Navy
* , three ships of the United States Navy
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3M6 Shmel
The 3M6 ''Shmel'' (russian: 3М6 «Шмель»; en, bumblebee) is an MCLOS wire-guided Anti-tank missile of the Soviet Union. Its GRAU designation is "3M6" and its NATO reporting name is AT-1 Snapper.
Too large to be manportable, it was typi ...
, an anti-tank missile with NATO reporting name AT-1 Snapper
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Sopwith Snapper, a British First World War prototype fighter aircraft
Places
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Snapper Creek
The Snapper Creek is a creek in the U.S. state of Florida that drains out of the Everglades into Biscayne Bay at Biscayne National Park. It is a long creek south of Downtown Miami, running through the suburbs of Kendall and Coral Gables in ...
, Florida
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Snapper Island (New South Wales), Australia, in Sydney Harbour
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Snapper Island (Queensland), Australia, at the mouth of the Daintree River
* Snapper, a hamlet in the UK that was served by
Snapper Halt railway station
Sports
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Long snapper
In American football, the long snapper (or deep snapper) is a center on special teams whose duty is to snap the football over a longer distance, typically around 15 yards during punts, and 7–8 yards during field goals and extra point att ...
, a specialized player in gridiron football
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Steve "Snapper" Jones (1942–2017), American basketball player and television analyst
Surname
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Ernst Snapper (1913–2017), Dutch-American mathematician
Other uses
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Snapper Inc., a residential lawn care and snow removal equipment company
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Snapper card
The Snapper card is a contactless electronic ticketing card used to pay for bus fares in Wellington, New Zealand. It was introduced in Wellington in July 2008. Another version – the Snapper HOP card – was introduced to Auckland in 2011 and ...
, a New Zealand contactless smartcard and USB device
See also
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Red snapper (disambiguation)
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 Atlan ...
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Snap (disambiguation)
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