Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Lutjanidae > Lutjanus > Lutjanus buccanella

Lutjanus buccanella (Wrenchman; Snapper; Sesi de lo alto; Redfish; Negra; Gun-mouth snapper; Gun-mouth blackfin; Blackfin snapper; Blackfin red snapper; Black spot snapper)

Synonyms: Lutianus buccanella; Lutjanus bucanella; Mesoprion buccanella; Mesoprion caudanotatus
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Wikipedia Abstract

The blackfin snapper, Lutjanus buccanella, is a species of snapper native to the western Atlantic Ocean including the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. It is a commercially important species, though it has been reported to carry the ciguatera toxin.
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Banco Chinchorro Biosphere Reserve VI 358906 Mexico    
Cayos Cochinos Archipelago National Park Natural Marine Monument   Honduras  
Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary IV 2387149 Florida, United States
Reserva de la Biosfera de Sian Ka'an Biosphere Reserve VI 1312618 Mexico  

Prey / Diet

Octopus briareus (Caribbean reef octopus)[1]

Predators

Carcharhinus perezii (Caribbean reef shark)[1]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Elaphrobates euzeti[1]
Neobenedenia melleni[1]
Preptetos trulla[2]

External References

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.
♦ 2Gibson, 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