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Lethrinidae
smalltooth emperor
Lethrinus microdon
Eighty Centimeters Lethrinid Fish
- Tropical
- Regional distribution
- Marine fish
- Pacific Ocean
- Africa
- Oceania
- South Asia
- Fusiform
- Large
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Regional distribution
Marine fish
Fusiform
Largesmalltooth emperor is known from Indo-West Pacific as a marine fish. It occurs in reef habitat.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Lethrinidae
- Genus
- Lethrinus
- Maximum length
- 80 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Indo-West Pacific: widespread, including the Red Sea, Arabian (Persian) Gulf, East Africa to Sri Lanka, to the Ryukyu Islands and Papua New Guinea. Also recorded from Micronesia (Ref. 3807 ) and French Polynesia (Ref. 4517 ) but these are probably misidentifications of Lethrinus olivaceus .
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
