Animalia > Chordata > Perciformes > Lutjanidae > Lutjanus > Lutjanus lutjanus

Lutjanus lutjanus (Yellow snapper; Tropical snapper; Snapper; Rosy snapper; Red Sea lined snapper; Golden striped snapper; Big-eye snapper; Bigeye snapper; Bigeye seaperch; Golden-striped snapper; Bigeye sea perch)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The bigeye snapper, Lutjanus lutjanus, is a species of snapper native to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean. It inhabits offshore coral reefs at depths from near the surface to 96 m (315 ft). This species is mostly silver in color with a yellow stripe along the side and fainter yellow lines on the lower half of the body. Fins are yellowish to whitish. It can reach a length of 35 cm (14 in). It is much sought-after by commercial fisheries.
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Attributes

Maximum Longevity [1]  11 years

Predators

Aipysurus laevis (Olive-brown seasnake)[2]
Lutjanus malabaricus (scarlet sea perch)[3]
Tursiops aduncus (Indo-Pacific Bottlenose Dolphin)[2]

Consumers

External References

Citations

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♦ 1Frimpong, 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.
♦ 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.
♦ 3Diet 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
♦ 4Gibson, 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