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Northern Red Snapper
Tia Offner, CC BY 4.0, via iNaturalist

Other fish (coast and sea)

Northern Red Snapper

Lutjanus campechanus (Poey, 1860)

VU Vulnerable

Names

EnglishNorthern Red Snapper
DutchRode snapper
SpanishHuachinango
Chinese西大西洋笛鲷
Scientific nameLutjanus campechanus (Poey, 1860)

About this species

The northern red snapper (Lutjanus campechanus) is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a snapper belonging to the family Lutjanidae. It is native to the western Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea, and the Gulf of Mexico, where it inhabits environments associated with reefs. This species is commercially important and is also sought after as a game fish.

It is closely related to Lutjanus purpureus, the southern red snapper or Caribbean red snapper, and both have been considered to be the same species in the past.

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Classification

KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
OrderPerciformes
FamilyLutjanidae
GenusLutjanus

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