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Species
Least Concernmangrove red snapper
Species
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderEupercaria incertae sedis
- FamilyLutjanidae
Habitatmarine, brackish, freshwater
Observations1,725
via IUCN
Wikidata facts
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- taxon name
- Lutjanus argentimaculatus
- taxon rank
- species
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- Lutjanus argentimaculatus
- taxon common name
- 紫红笛鲷
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- Commons category
- Lutjanus argentimaculatus
- short name
- L. argentimaculatus
- has characteristic
- carnivore
- taxon range
- South China Sea
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Encyclopedic overview
The mangrove red snapper (Lutjanus argentimaculatus), also known as mangrove jack, grey snapper, creek red bream, Stuart evader, dog bream, purple sea perch, red bream, red perch, red reef bream, river roman, or rock barramundi (though it is not closely related to bream, jack, or barramundi), is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a snapper belonging to the family Lutjanidae. It has a wide Indo-Pacific range and has recently been recorded in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.
Taxonomy
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mangrove red snapper” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.