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Lutjanidae

Description

Lutjanidae

Lutjanus jocu (Bloch & Schneider [ex Parra], 1801)—Dog snapper (FAO) References: New record; caught by fishing vessel John Melliss (Figure 15).

Remarks: This is a primarily a western Atlantic species (New England to Brazil) that is also known from Ascension. The pale triangle below the eye and reddish fins seems key distinguishing characters clearly visible in Figure 15.

Notes

Published as part of Brown, Judith, Beard, Annalea, Clingham, Elizabeth, Fricke, Ronald, Henry, Leeann & Wirtz, Peter, 2019, The fishes of St Helena Island, central Atlantic Ocean-new records and an annotated check-list, pp. 151-194 in Zootaxa 4543 (2) on pages 178-179, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4543.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2617755

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Biodiversity

Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Perciformes
Family
Lutjanidae
Taxon rank
family