Lutjanidae - Wikipedia
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 snapper. Snappers inhabit tropical and subtropical regions of all oceans.
FAMILY Details for Lutjanidae - Snappers - fishbase.se
Species/Synonymy list for the family Lutjanidae as currently in FishBase Important recommendation: The list below must not be used as an authority reference synonymy list like those found in scientific published revisions, which must be the source to be used and cited eventually when they exist.
Lutjanus - Wikipedia
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.
Snapper | Saltwater, Reef, Edible | Britannica
Snapper, any of about 105 species of fishes of the family Lutjanidae (order Perciformes). Snappers are found, often in abundance, throughout the tropics. Active, schooling fishes with elongated bodies, large mouths, sharp canine teeth, and blunt or forked tails, snappers are usually rather large,
Red Snapper - NOAA Fisheries
Sep 6, 2024 · No Butts About It: Using Urogenital Disparity in a Deep-Water Snapper, Etelis carbunculus (Lutjanidae), for Field-Based Sexual Identification. Using a non-invasive method to consistently identified sex based differences in the length and…
Vol.6. Snappers of the world - Food and Agriculture Organization
This is the sixth in the FAO series of worldwide annotated and illustrated catalogues of major groups of organisms that enter marine fisheries. The present volume includes 103 lutjanid species belonging to 17 genera. It provides comprehensive, illustrated keys and a glossary of technical terms and measurements. Individual accounts of species include drawings, scientific and …
Bigeye snapper - Wikipedia
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.
Lutjanidae - Animalia
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.
The Lutjanidae are spiny-rayed species having a typical "fishlike" appearance. Western Atlantic lutjanids show the following characters: head large, without a bony suborbital stay;
Family LUTJANIDAE - Fishes of Australia
Phylogenetic relationships of some common Indo-Pacific snappers (Perciformes: Lutjanidae) based on mitochondrial DNA sequences, with comments on the taxonomic position of the Caesioninae. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 44:450–460.