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Lutjanidae
sharptooth jobfish
Pristipomoides typus
Lutjanid Fish beneath the Western Indian Ocean
- Purple
- Tropical
- Regional distribution
- Marine fish
- Indian Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- Oceania
- Fusiform
- Large
- Tropical fish
Purple
Tropical
Regional distribution
Fusiform
Largesharptooth jobfish is a marine fish of Eastern Indian Ocean. The species occupies marine waters. Records give a maximum length of 70 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Lutjanidae
- Genus
- Pristipomoides
- Maximum length
- 70 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Eastern Indian Ocean: Andaman Sea. Western Pacific: New Guinea to Sumatra, north to the Ryukyu Islands. Present in Australia from the North West Shelf to Tweed Heads in New South Wales (Ref. 6390 ). Records from the western Indian Ocean need verification.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
