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Etelis bowen (Etelis boweni)
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Lutjanidae

Etelis bowen

Etelis boweni

Lutjanid Fish of Indo West Pacific

  • Red
  • Tropical
  • Transcontinental
  • Marine fish
  • Indian Ocean
  • Pacific Ocean
  • Africa
  • Oceania
  • West Asia
  • Compressed cross-section
  • Large
  • Tropical fish

Etelis boweni, known as Bowen's snapper or giant ruby snapper, is a species of ray-finned fish, a snapper belonging to the family Lutjanidae. It was discovered in deeper waters in the Indo-West Pacific region by a team of marine biologists from the United States, Spain, and Taiwan. It was named on March 9, 2021, after Brian Bowen, a researcher at the University of Hawaii.

Genus
Etelis
Maximum length
57.1 cm
Water
Marine
Distribution
Indo-Pacific: Red Sea, western Saudi Arabia, Western Australia (Ningaloo Reef and Montebello, Seychelles, Christmas Island, New Caledonia, Wallis and Futuna, Fiji, Tonga and Samoa.Islands.

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