Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Lutjanidae > Lutjanus > Lutjanus sanguineus

Lutjanus sanguineus (saddletailed sea perch; Humphead snapper; Bloodred snapper; Blood snapper; Snapper; Red snapper)

Synonyms: Diacope erythrina; Diacope sanguinea; Lutianus sanguineus; Lutjanus sanguiness
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  27.889 lbs (12.65 kg)
Female Maturity [2]  2 years 9 months
Male Maturity [1]  2 years 9 months
Maximum Longevity [2]  13 years

Prey / Diet

Decapterus maruadsi (White-tipped mackerel scad)[3]
Thenus orientalis (flathead lobster)[4]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Arius oetik (Sea catfish)1
Lutjanus gibbus (red snapper)1
Rachycentron canadum (Sergent fish)1

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Lutianicotyle indica <Unverified Name>[5]
Opegaster ditrematis[5]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 2Frimpong, E.A., and P. L. Angermeier. 2009. FishTraits: a database of ecological and life-history traits of freshwater fishes of the United States. Fisheries 34:487-495.
♦ 3Jorrit 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.
♦ 4Diet composition and food habits of demersal and pelagic marine fishes from Terengganu waters, east coast of Peninsular Malaysia, Z. Bachok, M.I. Mansor and R.M. Noordin, NAGA, WorldFish Center Quarterly Vol. 27 No. 3 & 4 Jul-Dec 2004, p. 41-47
♦ 5Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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