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Lutjanus lutjanus Bloch 1790

Authors/Creators

  • 1. National Natural History Collections and Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91904 Jerusalem, Israel. dani. golani @ mail. huji. ac. il; http: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4575 - 3324
  • 2. National Natural History Collections and Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91904 Jerusalem, Israel. dani. golani @ mail. huji. ac. il; http: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4575 - 3324 & Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart, Gewann Rosenstein / Rosenstein 1, 70191 Stuttgart, Germany. ronald. fricke @ smns-bw. de; ronfricke @ web. de; http: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 1476 - 6990 Corresponding author. D. Golani: dani. golani @ mail. huji. ac. il & National Natural History Collections and Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91904 Jerusalem, Israel. dani. golani @ mail. huji. ac. il; http: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4575 - 3324

Description

Lutjanus lutjanus Bloch 1790 − Bigeye snapper

Gulf of Suez: −

Gulf of Aqaba: −

Red Sea main basin: Egypt (Allen & Talbot 1985), Eritrea (Rüppell 1829, as Diacope lineolata), Saudi Arabia (Bogorodsky et al. 2014b).

General distribution: Red Sea, Indo-West Pacific: East Africa east to Japan, Philippines and Tonga.

IUCN (2016): Least Concern.

Notes

Published as part of Golani, Daniel & Fricke, Ronald, 2026, Revised checklist of the fishes of the Red Sea, including distribution in the Gulf of Suez and Gulf of Aqaba, with notes on endemism and Lessepsian migration, pp. 1-257 in Zootaxa 5780 (1) on page 172, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5780.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/19175291

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Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5780.1.1 (DOI)
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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Bloch
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Perciformes
Family
Lutjanidae
Genus
Lutjanus
Species
lutjanus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Lutjanus lutjanus Bloch, 1790 sec. Golani & Fricke, 2026

References

  • Allen, G. R. & Talbot, F. H. (1985) Review of the snappers of the genus Lutjanus (Pisces: Lutjanidae) from the Indo-Pacific, with the description of a new species. Indo-Pacific Fishes, 11, 1-87, pls. 1 - 10.
  • Ruppell, W. P. E. S. (1828 - 1830) Atlas zu der Reise im nordlichen Afrika. Fische des Rothen Meers. Parts 1 - 3. Heinrich Ludwig Bronner, Frankfurt am Main, 141 + 3 pp., pls. 1 - 35. [Part 1 (1828): 1 - 26, pls. 1 - 6, Part 2 (1829): 27 - 94, pls. 7 - 24 & Part 3 (1830): pp. 95-141, pls. 25 - 35]
  • Bogorodsky, S. V., Alpermann, T. J., Mal, A. O. & Gabr, M. H. (2014 b) Survey of demersal fishes from southern Saudi Arabia, with five new records for the Red Sea. Zootaxa, 3852 (4), 401-437. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3852.4.1