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Lutjanidae
lane snapper
Lutjanus synagris
Lutjanid Fish beneath Mexican Waters
- Tropical
- Southern Hemisphere
- Regional distribution
- Marine fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- Central America and the Caribbean
- North America
- South America
- Fusiform
- Large
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Regional distribution
Marine fish
Fusiform
Largelane snapper is known around Western Atlantic as a marine fish; It occurs in reef habitat, and the largest recorded length is 60 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Lutjanidae
- Genus
- Lutjanus
- Maximum length
- 60 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Western Atlantic: Bermuda (Anderson, pers. comm.) and North Carolina, USA to southeastern Brazil, including Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea (Ref. 9626 ). Most abundant around the Antilles, on the Campeche Bank, off Panama and the northern coast of South America. Lutjanus ambiguus (Poey, 1860), an intergeneric hybrid with Ocyurus chrysurus (Bloch) as demonstrated by Loftus (1992: Ref. 33006 ), followed by McEachran &. Fechhelm (2005: Ref. 78464 ).
- Conservation status
- NTNear Threatened
Class
Family
Conservation status
