Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Lutjanidae > Etelis > Etelis oculatusEtelis oculatus (Satin; Redfish; Red snapper; Queen snapper; Night snapper; Brim snapper; Brim; Bream; Blear-eyed snapper; Squirreleyed snapper)Synonyms: Erythrobussothen gracilis; Etelis aculatus; Serranus oculatus Language: Agutaynen; Danish; French; German; Mandarin Chinese; Portuguese; Spanish; Tagalog; Tonga The queen snapper, Etelis oculatus, is a genus of snapper native to east of the Windward Islands and the Caribbean Sea. It is the only species of Etelis not native to the Indian and Pacific oceans. The species lives and is caught at depths of about 300 to 400 ft. The queen snapper is bright red on its upper and lower sides with large and yellow eyes. The size averages at about 21 in. and weighs about 3 to 5 pounds. The world record is 11 pounds and 11 ounces. It has silvery sides and a deeply forked red tail that continues to lengthen as the fish grows. |
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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. |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via
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