Lutjanus vitta
Description
Lutjanus vitta (Quoy & Gaimard 1824) —Brownstripe snapper
Status at New Ireland. First recorded from Port Sulphur, New Ireland by Kailola (1975: 134); record confirmed by Allen & Talbot (1985: 77). Specimens observed by Jeff Kinch during CFMDP Survey at Kavieng fish market in 2004–2005, and by Barry C. Russell on 28 June 2014; a video of a specimen taken from Senta Passage, off eastern New Hanover, 5–16 m depth, at St. KR118, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell). KFRS material.
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2, 3.—General distribution: Seychelles; India east to Marshall Islands and New Guinea, north to Ryukyu Islands, south to northern Australia and New Caledonia. Solitary or in groups, in coastal or seaward coral reefs, 10–72 m depth. Marine.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Quoy & Gaimard
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Lutjanidae
- Genus
- Lutjanus
- Species
- vitta
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Lutjanus vitta (Quoy, 1824) sec. Andréfouët, Chen, Kinch, Mana, Russell, Tully & White, 2019
References
- Kailola, P. J. (1975) A catalogue of the fish reference collection at the Kanudi Fisheries Research Laboratory, Port Moresby. Department of Agriculture, Stock & Fisheries, Port Moresby, Research Bulletin, 16, 1 - 277.
- 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.