Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Lutjanidae > Aphareus > Aphareus furca

Aphareus furca (Snapper jobbyfish; Small-toothed jobfish; Smalltoothed jobfish; Small-tooth jobfish; Smalltooth jobfish; Small toothed jobfish; Olive smalltooth jobfish; Jobfish; Fork-tailed snapper fish; Blue smalltooth jobfish; Blue smalltooth job; Snapper)

Synonyms: Aphareus caerulescens; Aphareus flavivultus; Aphareus furcatus; Caranxomorus sacrestinus; Labrus furca
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Wikipedia Abstract

Aphareus is a genus of snappers native to the Indian and Pacific Oceans from the African coast to the Hawaiian Islands. The currently recognized species in this genus are: \n* Aphareus furca (Lacépède, 1801) (small-toothed jobfish) \n* Aphareus rutilans G. Cuvier, 1830 (rusty jobfish)
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Christmas Island National Park II 21698 Christmas Island, Australia
Pulu Keeling National Park II 6469 Cocos (Keeling) Islands    

Prey / Diet

Chlorurus sordidus (Greenfin parrotfish)[1]
Plagiotremus goslinei (sabretooth blenny)[2]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Caranx melampygus (black ulua)1

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Lepidapedoides apharei[3]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Predator-prey relations at a spawning aggregation site of coral reef fishes, Gorka Sancho, Christopher W. Petersen, Phillip S. Lobel, Mar Ecol Prog Ser 203: 275–288, 2000
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 3Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0