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Lutjanidae
cubera snapper
Lutjanus cyanopterus
Thick lips on rocky reefs
- Tropical
- Regional distribution
- Atlantic Ocean
- North America
- South America
- Fusiform
- Large
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Regional distribution
Atlantic Ocean
Fusiform
Largecubera snapper is a marine fish associated with reef habitat. The available account notes this characteristic: Thick lips on rocky reefs.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Lutjanidae
- Genus
- Lutjanus
- Maximum length
- 160 cm
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Western Atlantic: Nova Scotia and Bermuda (Anderson, pers. comm.) to the Amazon, Brazil. Rare north of Florida and apparently rare in the Gulf of Mexico.
- Conservation status
- VUVulnerable
Class
Family
Conservation status
