Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Lutjanidae > Lutjanus > Lutjanus griseus

Lutjanus griseus (Snapper; Silk; Pargue; Mangrove snapper; Mangrove pargue; Lawyer; Grey snapper; Graysnapper; Gray snapper; Gray silk; Black pargue)

Synonyms:
Language: Chinese; Creole, French; Danish; Dutch; Finnish; French; German; Greek; Italian; Japanese; Mandarin Chinese; Papiamento; Polish; Portuguese; Russian; Spanish; Swedish; Wayuu

Wikipedia Abstract

The mangrove snapper or gray snapper, Lutjanus griseus, is a species of snapper native to the western Atlantic Ocean from Massachusetts to Brazil, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean Sea. They can be found in a wide variety of habitats, including brackish and fresh waters. It is commercially important, as well as being sought as a game fish. It can also be found in the aquarium trade.
View Wikipedia Record: Lutjanus griseus

Protected Areas

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Carcharhinus perezii (Caribbean reef shark)[1]
Gymnothorax moringa (White-jawed moray eel)[4]
Mycteroperca microlepis (Velvet rockfish)[5]
Scomberomorus cavalla (Spanish mackerel)[1]

Consumers

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Jorrit 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.
2Queen Conch Predators: Not a Roadblock to Mariculture, Darryl E. Jory and Edwin S. Iversen, Proc. Gulf Caribb. Fish. Inst. 35:108-111. (1983)
3Energy flow to two abundant consumers in a subtropical oyster reef food web, Lauren A. Yeager, Craig A. Layman, Aquat Ecol, 2011
4Food Habits of Reef Fishes of the West Indies, John E. Randall, Stud. Trop. Oceanogr. 5, 665–847 (1967)
5Ontogenetic Shifts in the Diet of Gag, Mycteroperca microlepis, (Goode and Bean), (Pisces: Serranidae), Michael D. Mullaney, Jr., Proceedings of the 43rd Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute, pp. 432-445 (1994)
6Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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