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Lutjanidae
dog snapper
Lutjanus jocu
Lutjanid Fish beneath Western Atlantic
- White
- Tropical
- Regional distribution
- Atlantic Ocean
- Central America and the Caribbean
- North America
- South America
- Fusiform
- Large
- Tropical fish
White
Tropical
Regional distribution
Fusiform
Largedog snapper is known from Western Atlantic as a fish. It occurs in reef habitat.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Lutjanidae
- Genus
- Lutjanus
- Maximum length
- 128 cm
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Western Atlantic: Massachusetts, USA to São Paulo, Brazil (Ref. 57756 ), including the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea (Ref. 9626 ). Eastern Atlantic: St. Paul's Rocks and Ascension Island (Ref. 13121 ), Tinhosa Grande, south of Príncipe Island (L.A. Pereira (pers. comm.).
- Conservation status
- DDData Deficient
Class
Family
Conservation status
