Red snapper is a common name of several fish species. It may refer to:
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Red snapper
Red snapper | Introduction
Red snapper is a common name of several fish species. It is a sleek and streamlined fish, has two closely spaced dorsal fins on its back, and seven to 10 yellow finlets run from the dorsal fins to the tail, which is lunate – curved like a crescent moon – and tapered to pointy tips The tuna is a sleek and streamlined fish, adapted for speed. It has two closely spaced dorsal fins on its back; The first is "depressible" – it can be laid down, flush, in a groove that runs along its back. It is a sleek and streamlined fish . It has two closely spaced dorsal fins on its back.
what is a chain of underwater mountains called
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Seamount
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what can you tell about its geographic features?
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Seamounts can be found in every ocean basin in the world, distributed extremely widely both in space and in age. A seamount is technically defined as an isolated rise in elevation of or more from the surrounding seafloor, and with a limited summit area, of conical form.
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how are these chain of mountains formed?
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Formed millions of years ago by volcanism, they have since subsided far below sea level. This long chain of islands and seamounts extends thousands of kilometers northwest from the island of Hawaii.
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what can you tell about its structure?
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Seamounts can form in a wide variety of tectonic settings, resulting in a very diverse structural bank. Seamounts come in a wide variety of structural shapes, from conical to flat-topped to complexly shaped. Some are built very large and very low
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how can you describe its ecological role?
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Seamounts are exceptionally important to their biome ecologically, but their role in their environment is poorly understood. Because they project out above the surrounding sea floor, they disturb standard water flow, causing eddies and associated hydrological phenomena that ultimately result in water movement in an otherwise still ocean bottom.
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any type of danger associated with it?
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Yes, seamounts have not been mapped and thus pose a navigational danger.
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what can you tell about its fishing?
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Seamounts were first extensively fished in the second half of the 20th century, due to poor management practices and increased fishing pressure seriously depleting stock numbers on the typical fishing ground, the continental shelf. Seamounts have been the site of targeted fishing since that time.
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any fish you can mention?
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spiny lobster, mackerel, red king crab, red snapper, tuna
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how is the last one look like?
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Coloration of the northern red snapper is light red, with more intense pigment on the back. It has 10 dorsal spines, 14 soft dorsal rays, three anal spines and eight to 9 anal soft rays. Juvenile fish (shorter than 30–35 cm) can also have a dark spot on their sides, below the anterior soft dorsal rays, which fades with age.
Northern red snapper | Characteristics
The red bass, however, is usually darker in coloration, has fewer dorsal-fin spines, scale rows on the back that rise obliquely from the lateral line, and a deep groove from the nostrils to the eyes.
Mangrove red snapper | Description
The lower sides and belly are lighter; there is no dark lateral spot below the anterior part of soft dorsal fin. There are 8 narrow, light vertical bars on the side of the body which may be faded or absent in large adults. A solid or broken blue line runs beneath the eye; it may also disappear with growth. From the upper jaw to the tip of the fleshy opercle, the line is often broken into parts that resemble dashes and spots. The fin and tail is bright yellow, yellow green, or pale orange, and the snout contains blue stripes.
Schoolmaster snapper | Characteristics
Red Snapper is a common type of fish. It may also refer to:
Red Snapper (disambiguation) | Introduction
Red snapper is a common name of several fish species. It may refer to:
Red snapper | Introduction
Its color is typically a scarlet red with silvery undersides. It has a black crescent-shaped mark at the base of its pectoral fins. The fins are yellow to orange. This species can reach a length of , though most do not exceed . The greatest known weight for this species is .
Blackfin snapper | Description
The interior scale rows on back are parallel to lateral line. The soft dorsal and anal fins have scales. The single dorsal fin has 10 spines and 14 soft rays; the spiny portions of the fin are not deeply engraved at the junction with the soft portion. The anal fin has three spines and eight soft rays that are rounded from the tail. The caudal fin is emarginated. The 16 or 17 rays of the pectoral fins are longer than the distance from longest point of the snout to tail edge of preopercle, reaching the level of anus. The color is olive gray to brownish on upper back and upper sides, with yellow to reddish mite around the head.
Schoolmaster snapper | Characteristics
The two-spot red snapper can reach a length of , though most do not exceed . The greatest recorded weight for this species is . These large reddish tropical snappers show darker fins, a rounded profile of head and a groove running from the nostrils to the eyes. They have 10 dorsal spines and 3 anal spines. Juveniles and some adults have two silvery-white spots (hence the common name) on the back close to their dorsal fins, while larger adults lose the spots and become mostly red. Large adults may cause ciguatera poisoning. This species is a commercially important species and is also sought-after as a game fish.
Lutjanus bohar | Description
The northern red snapper's body is very similar in shape to other snappers, such as the mangrove snapper, mutton snapper, lane snapper, and dog snapper. All feature a sloped profile, medium-to-large scales, a spiny dorsal fin, and a laterally compressed body. Northern red snapper have short, sharp, needle-like teeth, but they lack the prominent upper canine teeth found on the mutton, dog, and mangrove snappers. They are rather large and are red in color. This snapper reaches maturity at a length of about . The common adult length is , but may reach . The maximum published weight is 50 lb, 4 oz (22.79 kg) and the oldest reported age is 100+ years.
Northern red snapper | Characteristics
"R. lapidifer" can grow to a maximum length around . It resembles a marine snapper (genus "Lutjanus") in body shape and has five distinctive dark vertical bars on each side. The lips are large and underslung. The main body colour is an iridescent silvery-violet with random gold speckling. Small blue markings are on the face, two diagonal blue lines pass across the eyes, and an intermittent black spot appears on the soft part of the dorsal fin. Fish in this genus are characterised by a pointed snout, eyes set far back on the head, a depressed body with a compressed ventral region, and the ventral scales being smaller than those on the flanks.
Retroculus lapidifer | Description
This species can reach a length of , though most do not exceed . The color is probably the most diagnostic feature of the fish, especially when alive or fresh from the water. The back and sides of the fish are bright yellow, with the lower sides and underside of head fading to white. Four bright-blue stripes run longitudinally on the side of the fish, with several faint greyish stripes on lowermost part of sides. Most fins are yellow.
Bluestripe snapper | Description
The body of the fish is cylindrical and it has a characteristic protruded snout, usually with star shaped tubercles on it. The mouth is large and the lips fleshy. The general colour is yellow-green with a darker band stretching horizontal over the body. Older fish is a darker olive grey. The eyes are typically red and the fish reaches 23 cm in length.
Redeye labeo | Appearance
Blue-and-gold snapper have 10 dorsal spines, 14–15 dorsal soft rays, three anal spines, and eight anal soft rays. The preopercular notch and knob are strong. The scale rows on the back rise obliquely above the lateral line. They are generally bright yellow, with five black-edged, bluish-white stripes on the sides. The belly is whitish with narrow gray lines, and the fins are mainly yellow.
Blue and gold snapper | Description
The yelloweye rockfish ("Sebastes ruberrimus") is a rockfish of the genus "Sebastes", and one of the biggest members of the genus. Its name derives from its coloration. It is also locally known as "red snapper", not to be confused with the warm-water Atlantic species "Lutjanus campechanus" that formally carries the name red snapper. The yelloweye is one of the world's longest-lived fish species, and is cited to live to a maximum of 114 to 120 years of age. As they grow older, they change in color, from reddish in youth, to bright orange in adulthood, to pale yellow in old age.
Yelloweye rockfish | Introduction
Crimson snapper is a common name for a number of fish:
Crimson snapper | Introduction
Redfish is a common name for several species of fish. It is most commonly applied to certain deep-sea rockfish in the genus "Sebastes", or the reef dwelling snappers in the genus "Lutjanus". It is also applied to the slimeheads or roughies (family Trachichthyidae), and the alfonsinos (Berycidae).
Redfish | Introduction
The body is moderately deep in profile, with the dorsal profile of the head steeply sloped, having a well-developed preopercular notch and knob. Identifying morphological features include the number of gill rakers on lower limb of the first arch, which number 13 or 14, with the total rakers on the first arch numbering 20 to 22. The dorsal fin consists of 10 spines anterior to 14 or 15 soft rays, while the anal fin has three spines and seven or eight soft rays. The pectoral fins have 15 or 16 rays, with the caudal fin being slightly emarginate. The row of scales on the back rise obliquely above the lateral line, which contains 48 to 51 scales.
Bluestripe snapper | Description
Atkinson. The name "stigmaeus" means "speckled" in Greek. The redeye gaper has a rounded, slightly compressed body and a very large head. The mouth is large, with a protruding lower jaw and teeth arranged in bands. The skin is soft, loose, and very pliable (especially on the underside), forming folds over much of the head and body. The fish is covered with minute spinules that give it a velvety texture. The lateral line system has prominent open canals. The pectoral fins are small, with 14 fin rays. The first dorsal fin ray is modified into an angling apparatus (the illicium) with a lure (the esca).
Redeye gaper | Introduction
This species has been described under several names that are now agreed to as junior synonyms:
Humpback red snapper | Synonyms
This species is known to grow up to a metre in length or more, and can weigh over 20 kg (44 lbs) and sometimes up to 70 lbs at the largest. It is a darkly colored fish with a similar body plan to the mangrove red snapper ("Lutjanus argentimaculatus") and Cubera snapper ("Lutjanus cyanopterus"), large eyes, a deep, muscular body, long, thin pectoral fins, the anal fin matching the adipose fin in shape and length, two pelvic fins hanging down from the stomach directly below the pectoral fins, and a big head. Like most snappers of the Lutjanus genus, the Papuan Black Snapper has a body covered in thick scales with long, thin pectoral fins.
Lutjanus goldiei | Description
Since the anglers have to both choose the right bait and present it correctly, they tend to use multiple hooked baits. Favorite baits include squid, whole medium-sized fish, and small strips of fish such as amberjack. Although many northern red snapper are caught on the bottom, in some situations the larger fish are caught on heavy jigs (artificial lures), often tipped with a strip of bait or by freelining baits at the proper upper level.
Northern red snapper | Commercial and recreational use
These larger fish do not allow smaller individuals to share this territory. The largest red snapper spread out over open habitats, as well as reefs.
Northern red snapper | Distribution
This fish is pale yellow below and white above, with two broad diagonal black bands, up to 20 cm in length.
Red Sea bannerfish | Description
Several species of fish share the name red scorpionfish:
Red scorpionfish | Introduction
Diaz reported weight vs. length data for "L. campechanus" for the National Marine Fisheries Service (US). As northern red snapper grow longer, they increase in weight, but the relationship between length and weight is not linear. The relationship between total length (L, in inches) and total weight (W, in pounds) for nearly all species of fish can be expressed by an equation of the form: formula_1 Invariably, b is close to 3.0 for all species, and c is a constant that varies among species. Diaz reported that for red snapper, c=0.000010 and b=3.076. These values are for inputs of length in cm and result in weight in kg.
Northern red snapper | Reproduction and growth
The bigeye snapper ("Lutjanus lutjanus"), also known as the bigeye snapper, big-eye snapper, bigeye seaperch, red sea lined snapper, golden striped snapper, tropical snapper, rosy snapper, yellow snapper, or simply snapper, is a species of snapper native to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean. It inhabits offshore coral reefs at depths from near the surface to . This species is mostly silver in color with a yellow stripe along the side and fainter yellow lines on the lower half of the body. Fins are yellowish to whitish. It can reach a length of .
Bigeye snapper | Introduction
Mangrove red snapper is a popular and important commercial and recreational fish throughout its range, and considered to be an excellent food fish. For fishermen, the telltale sign of a hooked mangrove red snapper is the explosive run for cover once the bait (or lure) is taken. Many fish (and so lures) are lost once they reach the protection of the snags as a result of their initial burst of speed. The mangrove red snapper is a highly regarded table fish with firm, sweet-tasting, white flesh. While often a nuisance species when targeting the infamous barramundi, many fisherman rate the eating qualities of the jack higher than it.
Mangrove red snapper | Fisheries
Sebastes miniatus is a species of rockfish known by the common names vermilion rockfish, vermilion seaperch, red snapper, red rock cod, and rasher. It is native to the waters of the Pacific Ocean off western North America from Baja California to Alaska. The body of the vermilion rockfish is moderately deep and compressed. The upper profile of the head is somewhat curved; the mouth is large, with the lower jaw slightly projecting. The color is bright red on the body and fins; many with black and gray mottling on back and sides. On fish shorter than the mottling is much more apparent and the fins are often edged with black.
Sebastes miniatus | Introduction
The colour of this fish is generally reddish-brown and there is a large, semicircular pigmented spot between the sixth and tenth dorsal spines. The fins are spotted with brown and the caudal fin is unbarred.
Small red scorpionfish | Description
These schools are usually made up of fish of very similar size. The preferred habitat of this species changes as it grows and matures due to increased need for cover and changing food habits. Newly hatched red snapper spread out over large areas of open benthic habitat, then move to low-relief habitats, such as oyster beds. As they near one year of age, they move to intermediate-relief habitats as the previous year's fish move on to high-relief reefs with room for more individuals. Around artificial reefs such as oil platforms, smaller fish spend time in the upper part of the water column while more mature (and larger) adults live in deeper areas.
Northern red snapper | Distribution
The fish is maroon, with blue spot that fades to bright red. The color pattern helps it blend in with its natural environment. It grows to up to 24 in (60 cm) long. Most adult have blue mouths, while the young have bright red eyes.
Rock greenling | Appearance
In the Red Sea, half the back of some individuals may be colored blue. The caudal fin is truncated and usually yellow with a pinkish pattern, which can be faded or completely blue.
Checkerboard wrasse | Description
The humpback red snapper or paddletail snapper, "Lutjanus gibbus", is a species of snapper native to the Indian Ocean from the coast of Africa and the Red Sea to the western Pacific Ocean. It is mostly an inhabitant of coral reefs at depths of from , with the juveniles being found in beds of seagrass or on sheltered coral reefs and subadults and adults found on sloping substrates. This species can reach a length of . It is a commercially important species, as well as being sought after as a game fish. It is also a popular species for display in public aquaria.
Humpback red snapper | Introduction
The body of the fish is medium-high, very compressed laterally. Seen from profile it resemblances an ellipse. The mouth is terminal, very small, with non-protrusive jaws. The base color of the head, the upper half of the body and the fins are pale blue, except for the dorsal and caudal fins, which are yellow. The lower half of the body and the belly are whitish-silvered. The head has a diagonal brown strip that crosses the eye, from the nape of the neck to the chin. Another diagonal brown stripe extends from the base of the 4th or 5th spine to the base of the pectoral fins.
Siganus virgatus | Morphology
The body of these fishes goes through various phases of color, which may vary from orange to entirely red or entirely silver, or silver with broad six red bands (the first red bar crosses the eye). It is also capable of quickly changing the color. Sometimes it has a row of about fifteen small dark spots along the lateral line or large spots on upper side. The fins are red to light pink. This species is rather similar and can be confured with "Priacanthus blochii" and with "Heteropriacanthus cruentatus". Both these last species have the caudal fin only slightly rounded.
Priacanthus hamrur | Description
The northern red snapper ("Lutjanus campechanus") is a species of snapper native to the western Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea, and the Gulf of Mexico, where it inhabits environments associated with reefs. This species is commercially important and is also sought-after as a game fish.
Northern red snapper | Introduction
The body is a dark brownish (almost black) coloring with faint, iridescent white stripes (similar to those on a Cubera Snapper and Mangrove snapper ("Lutjanus griseus"), and a yellowish tint to the fins. Like other snappers, they have incredible jaw strength with sharp canine-like teeth that are spaced apart in the mouth.
Lutjanus goldiei | Description
The breeding males have a band of red spots in the middle of their first dorsal fins. Males also have oversized pelvic fins, and their pectoral, pelvic, and anal fins are flushed with orange or red. The females look very similar to males, but are lacking any of the red or orange and have smaller pelvic fins. Their fins are spotted and lightly pigmented. They have a fusiform to cylindrical body shape that is slightly elongated and are slightly laterally compressed anteriorly and are round to oval in cross section. In perciform teleosts, the posterior, exposed part of each scale bears tiny tooth-like projections (cteni) – ctenoid scales.
Least darter | Description
The fish is bright red with thin white lines crossing from the gill cover to the caudal peduncle. The gill cover has two vertical white lines. A third line runs along the upper lip and below the large eye.
Sargocentron diadema | Description
Colourations are extremely prominent in juvenile fish. They are members of the snapper genus Lutjanus, which also includes mangrove jack and other well-known table species.
Lutjanus johnii | Introduction
The redtail splitfin is a deep-bodied fish, and males have a hump behind the head. The hump gets larger as the males get older. Adult males have a red-orange tail and tail-base. The upper part of the body and head are olive-brownish to dusky. A broad, poorly defined bluish-black band runs from the gill cover to the tail, but it virtually disappears on the mid-body region. The throat and belly or yellowish to whitish. Females lack the red-orange and are overall more plainly colored. Females are generally slightly larger than males. Females grow to 7 centimeters (2.8 inches) while males grow to 6 centimeters (2.4 inches).
Redtail splitfin | Description
Lutjanus erythropterus the crimson snapper is a marine fish native to the western Pacific and Indian Oceans, from the Gulf of Oman to Japan and northern Australia.
Lutjanus erythropterus | Introduction
This tropical marine fish reaches in length. It is mostly bright blue in color, with a bright yellow bottom. Different species in this genus have varied amounts of gold coloring.
Chrysiptera hemicyanea | Appearance
Coloration of the mangrove red snapper ranges from burnt orange, to copper, to bronze and dark reddish-brown, depending on its age and environment. Younger fish caught in estuarine areas are often darker than older fish taken from offshore reef areas, and exhibit lighter vertical bands down their flanks. Like other tropical snappers (family Lutjanidae), mangrove jacks have prominent canine teeth in their jaws that are used for seizing and holding prey. These teeth can cause a nasty injury to unwary fishers. In reef areas, mangrove red snappers are sometimes confused with two-spot red snapper or red bass ("Lutjanus bohar"), a known carrier of ciguatera toxin.
Mangrove red snapper | Description
The fish served in sushi restaurants in Japan as "Tai" is actually Pagrus major. That fish is known in English as "red seabream", but is sometimes also called "red snapper". It is not the same fish as Japanese snapper.
Japanese snapper | Culinary use
Fish of this genus are oblong in shape and have large mouths. They have scales over the rays of their second dorsal and anal fins, and the second anal spine is larger than the third. The inside of the mouth is usually bright red. Juveniles of the genus look similar to each other, but the variation in the appearance of the adults is great.
Haemulon | Description
Its color is typically greyish red, but it can change color from bright red to copper red. It has a dark stripe running across its eye if observed from the top when it is under water. This species can reach a length of , though most do not exceed . The greatest recorded weight for this species is . The mangrove snapper can be confused with the cubera snapper or black snapper, "L. cyanopterus". Mangrove snapper are typically much smaller than cubera, but when they are of similar size, the two species can only be distinguished by examining the tooth patch on the inside roof of the mouth.
Mangrove snapper | Description
The fin membranes are also shades of red. The iris is a deep rose red. This species attains a maximum of 30.5 cm total length.
Redeye gaper | Introduction
Usually, the left claw is the crusher, and the right is the cutter. The exoskeleton is generally blue above, with spots that coalesce, and yellow below. The red colour associated with lobsters only appears after cooking. This occurs because, in life, the red pigment astaxanthin is bound to a protein complex, but the complex is broken up by the heat of cooking, releasing the red pigment.
Homarus gammarus | Description
It is orange or light red with several broad, dark bars along the body.
Tiger rockfish | Introduction
The redtail surfperch body is about twice as long as it is high, not including the mildly forked tail. The tail is about ¼ of the fish's length and is as wide as it is long. The first quarter of the redtail surfperch's length includes a small upturned mouth, eye, and gill cover. The second quarter of the fish includes an upward sloping back, the dorsal fin spines along the highest part of the back, a pectoral fin at the leading edge of the lowest part on the belly, and a moderately sized pectoral fin two-thirds of the way down the body just behind the gill cover.
Redtail surfperch | Description
Australia: cocknies (young smaller than legal size), red bream or pinkies (legal size), squire or squirefish (when bigger), snapper (at full size) Western Australia: "pink snapper" to distinguish it from unrelated species Victoria: also schnapper (ref: Schnapper Point, Mornington)
Australasian snapper | Regional variation in naming
The mutton snapper ("Lutjanus analis") is a species of snapper native to the Atlantic coastal waters of the Americas from Massachusetts to southern Brazil, including the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico. They are particularly common in the Caribbean. They inhabit reef environments, with adults found in areas with rock or coral, while juveniles occur in sandy habitats with plentiful weed growth. They can be found at depths of from , though most often between . They have olive-tinted backs and red sides with a black spot between the lateral line and the dorsal fin and blue stripes on the head.
Mutton snapper | Introduction
The fish exhibits a green back; its sides are silvery marked with about three rows of round to elliptical yellow spots. Lateral line gradually curving down from the upper end of the gill cover toward caudal peduncle. The first (spiny) dorsal fin is black at the front. Posterior membranes are white with a black edge. Its single row of cutting edged teeth in each jaw (around sixty-four teeth in all) are large, uniform, closely spaced and flattened from side to side. As with the King mackerel and the Cero mackerel, these teeth look very similar to those of the Bluefish, "Pomatomus saltatrix".
Atlantic Spanish mackerel | Description
The Cape redfish is a demersal fish that grows to a maximum length of about though a more normal size is about . The dorsal fin has about thirteen spines and thirteen soft rays and the anal fin has three spines and six soft rays. The general colour of this fish is reddish or brown, and there are five or six pale spots on its back.
Sebastes capensis | Description
The lookdown is silvery on both sides with a darker tinge on top. A young fish has several faint vertical bars that fade as it grows. The longest lookdown known was 48.3 cm long, and the heaviest weighed 2.1 kg.
Lookdown | Description
Kisatchie painted crawfish are brown or olive with red, blue, and white to yellow markings. The red is mainly on the central joints of the pereiopods, the postorbital ridges, and a little on the posterior margins of the uropods (tail fins) and abdominal segments. The fingers of the long, stout chelae (claws) are in order from tip to base, red, yellow/cream, blue, and greenish brown/brown. Its cephalothorax is about long, to a maximum of . The rostrum (beak) is acuminate and has lateral spines. It has a closed areola (the hourglass shaped lines on the back). It is very similar to "Faxonius difficilis" but has a central projection that is longer and more curved, with a more smoothly curved expanded mesial process.
Orconectes maletae | Description
Argyrops spinifer is also known as king soldier bream, Bowen snapper, frying-pan snapper, frypan bream, long-spined red bream, longfin snapper, longspine seabream and red bokako. It is a species of fish in the family Sparidae. It is used as seafood and can be found in the Red Sea, Eastern coast of Africa and northern Australia.
Argyrops spinifer | Introduction
The membranes between the dorsal spines may be slightly darkened to totally black, and the long pelvic fins may be quite dark. The juvenile is not well known but it is likely silver in color. The appearance of the fish shows some geographical variation, mainly in size. The life span of the fish is up to about 9 years.
Cookeolus japonicus | Description
This is a beautiful fish . Body discoid with the anterodorsal profile slightly curved in a "S" shape. Head robust and wide. Snout blunt. Preanal spine and ectopterygoid teeth absent. Adipose fin wide. Head silver with methalic orange to red at mandibular region. Iris red. Body with greenish laterally and mixture of orange and red at the abdominal area. Body covered with round or oval black spots. Fins bright red. and
Pristobrycon careospinus | Description
The redear sunfish generally resembles the bluegill except for coloration and somewhat larger size. The redear sunfish also has faint vertical bars traveling downwards from its dorsal. It is dark-colored dorsally and yellow-green ventrally. The male has a cherry-red edge on its operculum; females have orange coloration in this area. The adult fish are between in length. Max length is , compared to a maximum of about for the bluegill. "Lepomis microlophus" averages at a size of about , also larger than the average bluegill. See an excellent representation of a trophy redear sunfish.
Redear sunfish | Description
The red line tetra is similar in shape to the Buenos Aires tetra. It is a silvery fish with a red line running down the body, hence the name. Below the red line is a small yellow line and an even smaller black one. They grow to about 2.5 to 3 centimeters.
Hyphessobrycon amapaensis | Description
Blue-green streamers and numerous pink striations formed, the latter lasting for 30 minutes. Observers at Samoa saw a white flash, which faded to orange and disappeared in about 1 minute."
Operation Fishbowl | Checkmate
This fish was first described in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the tenth edition of his System Naturae. He gave it the name "Sparus pagrus" but it has since been moved to the genus "Pagrus". Common names given to this fish include red porgy, common seabream and porgy. Along the Gulf Coast, it is known as the white snapper, even though it is not a true snapper. In the United Kingdom, it is known as Couch's seabream after the Cornish ichthyologist Dr. Jonathan Couch who first discovered this species in the waters around Britain.
Red porgy | Taxonomy
"E. microperca" fish are very small in body size, typically are long with a maximum of about . Their main color is an overall light olive brown covered in darker brown speckles. The lateral line is often absent, or when it is present, it is very short. They have seven to 15 dark blotches along their sides which are wider than they are tall. The second dorsal and tail fins have many small dark spots that form wavy rows. "E. microperca" also has a distinct teardrop-shaped spot under the eyes and often several other dark lines radiating outward from the eyes on their heads and snouts.
Least darter | Description
Lutjanus lemniscatus, commonly known as the yellowstreaked snapper, is a marine fish native to the western Pacific and Indian Oceans, from Mozambique to the Philippines.
Lutjanus lemniscatus | Introduction
There is a red line running from the corner of the mouth toward the tail, and in some specimens there is a line of white or yellow colouration running forward from the eye through the nostrils. The profile of the dorsal fin is almost straight to slightly concave.
Lethrinus mahsena | Description
There are no extra little finlets between them and the tailfin. The general colour of this fish is dark green with a silvery sheen. There are three dark longitudinal lines on the top of the back and the fins have dusky edges. A silvery line runs from the eye to the caudal peduncle, and the flanks below this are paler. In the living fish, the tip of the lower jaw is red. The lining of the abdominal cavity is black.
Hyporhamphus unifasciatus | Description
They obtain a scarlet-red color in their eyes and on their underbelly, while their heads become a bright yellow-gold. Males' fins also become a bright yellow-gold color and the red of their lips seems more pronounced during this time.
Redlip shiner | Description
As the name suggests, this rockfish is notable for a general orange-yellow appearance, consisting of a blotchy orange pattern over a whitish or light gray background. The head has three stripes angling downwards and back, the middle one generally running across the eye, and the other two on each side of the eye. The lateral line is in a clear area. The fins are orange, with the pectoral, pelvic, and anal fins somewhat pointed and larger (thus the species epithet "pinniger", meaning "I bear a large fin"). Some individuals have dark blotches on the body or dorsal fin. Maximum recorded length if 76 cm (29.6 in).
Canary rockfish | Species description
A small fish, reaching a length of TL, it is purple with a diagonal black cap on its head.
Gramma melacara | Appearance
The northern red snapper is found in the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea, and the southeastern Atlantic coast of the United States and much less commonly northward as far as Massachusetts. In Latin American Spanish, it is known as ', ', ', or '. This species commonly inhabits waters from , but can be caught as deep as on occasion. They stay relatively close to the bottom, and inhabit rocky bottoms, ledges, ridges, and artificial reefs, including offshore oil rigs and shipwrecks. Like most other snappers, northern red snapper are gregarious and form large schools around wrecks and reefs.
Northern red snapper | Distribution
This fish belongs to the tropical snapper and sea perches family, Lutjanidae. It can be reality identified by their adult coloration. This fish contains long filaments at the tips of its tail fin. Its body is of a bronze/blue-gray color and it has yellow fins. It reaches a maximum length of 70 cm but more commonly found to be a length of 25 cm. Males may be identified by yellow present on the head.
Aphareus (fish) | Description
Golden snapper is a common name for a number of fish:
Golden snapper | Introduction
"Alpheus randalli" is a medium-sized snapping shrimp growing to about long. The rostrum of "Alpheus randalli" is half as long again as it is broad and the carapace is not laterally compressed. The chelipeds are asymmetric, one carrying a massive snapping claw. The background colour of this shrimp is white or transparent with red bands and spots on the rostrum and both large and small chelipeds. There are further bands of white and red on the abdomen and the tips of the uropods are red. The tips of the thoracic appendages are yellowish-green.
Alpheus randalli | Description
The canary wrasse is a small fish that can reach a maximum length of 12 cm. It has a thin, elongate body with a terminal mouth. Body coloration is bright yellow with a few variations according to age. Juvenile and immature female have two black spots rimmed with white or light yellow on the dorsal fin (the first one at the start of the fin (head side) and the second in the middle of its dorsal fin) and a third one between the caudal peduncle and the start of the caudal fin. Mature females or young males only show the two black spots on the dorsal fin.
Halichoeres chrysus | Description
The fish's upper jaw is longer than its lower jaw.
Roanoke logperch | Description
Like other fish found exclusively in caves, the skin of "R. reddelli" lacks pigment. The fish also lacks eyes, instead having various sensory organs for taste, smell, and touch; these can help it to orient itself in the total darkness and locate food. It is a small fish up to long, with a flattened head, a long dorsal fin, and a deeply forked tail. The three barbels on the chin are long and packed with sensory cells.
Juil ciego | Description
Larger schoolmaster snapper whose white vertical bars are faded might be mistaken for dog snapper. The schoolmaster, however, does not have the white cone-shaped patch on the gill that identifies the dog snapper. Though different in appearance, schoolmaster snapper have habits similar to those of the mangrove snapper.
Schoolmaster snapper | Similar species
Lutjanus quinquelineatus, the five-lined snapper or blue-striped snapper, is a species of snapper native to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean. It is an inhabitant of coral reefs being found at depths from . This species can reach in TL, though most do not exceed . It is a commercially important species and is also sought after as a game fish. It can also be found in the aquarium trade.
Lutjanus quinquelineatus | Introduction
The juvenile doesn't have yet after the second black stripe any white area like adults.
Pennant coralfish | Description
"Halichoeres maculipinna" is generally less than long. The fish is slightly elongated with a nearly symmetrical upper and lower body. It has a pointed snout and rows of small teeth in its upper and lower jaws with two sets of canines in each (at the front and corners of its mouth). Its pectoral fin has fourteen rays, its dorsal fin has eleven rays and nine spines, and its anal fin has eleven rays and three spines. Its dorsal side is yellow and is separated from its white ventral side by a black band. It has three red lines across the top of its head, and it may have a dark spot on its dorsal fin.
Halichoeres maculipinna | Description
The mangrove red snapper ("Lutjanus argentimaculatus"), commonly called mangrove jack within Australia, is a species of snapper. It is also known as creek red bream, the Stuart evader, dog bream, mangrove red snapper, purple sea perch, purple sea-perch, red bream, red perch, red reef bream, river roman, or rock barramundi.
Mangrove red snapper | Introduction
The fish is characterized by a torpedo-shaped body with silver scales, a red line running from their snout, through the eye, back towards the middle of the body; and below the red line, a black line that runs the length of the fish to the tail. As they mature, a distinctive green/blue marking on top of the head develops. This species reputedly reaches a length of TL, but typically will only reach . They are active shoaling fishes. The species was described by Francis Day and named after Sir William Denison.
Denison barb | Physical characteristics
The southern red snapper ("Lutjanus purpureus"), also known as the Caribbean red snapper, is a species of snapper native to the western Atlantic Ocean as well the Caribbean Sea.
Southern red snapper | Introduction
The canarytop wrasse is a small fish that can reach a maximum length of 12 cm. It has a thin, elongate body with a terminal mouth. Body coloration is bright yellow and white with a few variations according to age. During the juvenile phase, the young wrasse is completely bright yellow with two black ocellus on the dorsal fin and one on the caudal peduncle.
Halichoeres leucoxanthus | Description
"Diplecogaster tonstricula", in life, has a normal ground colour of bright orange on the head and body with thin yellowish or whitish bars which start between the eyes. The colour of the head to the front of the eyes is pale olive with whitish streaking. The eye is pale green with brown barring towards the rear and a yellow ring around the iris. There is a white spot with black margins, like an eye, on the cheek. The fins are orange. In shape this species has the triangular head, long body and small posteriorly positioned dorsal and anal fins typical of clingfishes.
Diplecogaster tonstricula | Description
"S. mentella" is very similar in appearance to the Acadian redfish ("Sebastes fasciatus").
Deepwater redfish | Introduction
Shape: Body very slender, elongate and snake-like, not depressed. Head short and depressed, sharply pointed, with lower jaw that projects prominently. No cirri above the eye. Dorsal fin low and even Colour: Body white with pale cream to light brown blotches, forming irregular saddles on the back, or off-white with a dense pattern of small irregular mauve spots which are enlarged on the dorsal surface and become sparse below the lateral line. The fish has a translucent appearance. Below the saddles is a pearly horizontal line, separated by a thin white, then light brown line from the white to pearly white ventral area.
Cancelloxus longior | Description
This is a slender fish with a maximum length of 4.6 inches. They are characterized by the presence of a conical, "pig-like" snout and "tiger-stripe" pattern of numerous dark, vertical bars on a yellowish background. The curious snout development is an apparent adaptation to stone-flipping behavior, in which the snout is used to flip over rocks during feeding. Unlike many other darter species, logperches show little sexual dimorphism in coloration.
Conasauga logperch | Anatomy and appearance
Lutjanus vitta, commonly known as the brownstripe red snapper, is a marine fish native to the western Pacific and Indian Oceans.
Lutjanus vitta | Introduction
The eastern nannygai ("Centroberyx affinis"), also known as the redfish, bight redfish, red snapper, golden snapper or koarea, is an alfonsino of the genus "Centroberyx". It is found around Australia and New Zealand at depths between on the continental shelf. It can reach lengths of up to SL. It forms schools near the sea floor over rocky reefs and mud at dawn and dusk, splitting up at night to feed on mollusks, crustaceans, and small fish. Its young live in estuaries and shallow coastal waters.
Eastern nannygai | Introduction
The lane snapper ("Lutjanus synagris") is a species of snapper native to the western Atlantic Ocean from North Carolina to southern Brazil, including the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. It can be found in a wide range of habitats, though it prefers coral reefs and sandy areas with plentiful vegetation. It occurs at depths from , most frequently between . This species is silvery-pink to reddish in color, with short, irregular, pink and yellow lines on its sides; it has a diffuse black spot, about as large as the eye; the dorsal fin is centered above the lateral line; the outer margin of the caudal fin is blackish.
Lane snapper | Introduction
The caudal fin is black with white corners.
Live sharksucker | Description
Its closest edge looks something like a whale with seaweed draped on its head. The main plateau of the islet behind it is greenish in colour.
The Nuggets | Introduction
These bars fade as the fish grows larger. The head is spiny. The fins may have darkened edges or a black tinge. This long-lived fish has been reported to reach 106 years old. The time it takes to reach maturity varies widely, often by geography. A fish off California might be mature at age 3, while an individual off British Columbia might take 19 years to mature. Size at maturity varies from 23 to 42 centimeters, with males maturing at smaller sizes than females.
Redbanded rockfish | Introduction
There is a noticeable row of dark, oblong blotches along the lower flank. There is a further row of 4 black spots on the caudal peduncle. Fish from deeper water have a red, orange or yellower hue compared to the paler fish from shallower water. This species attains a maximum total length of .
Serranus baldwini | Description
See the List of reef fish of the Red Sea
List of fishes in the Red Sea | <a href="Reef">Reef</a>-associated species
Black snapper is a common name for a fish. Black snapper may refer to:
Black snapper | Introduction
Shape: A small, slender fish with an elongate and compressed body, and a depressed head with a pointed snout. The tip of the lower jaw is angled downwards and extends beyond the upper jaw. There are no tentacles or papillae over the eyes. The front nostrils are tubular and the cirri are small simple flaps. The dorsal fin is low and of even height, without a crest. Colour:
Cancelloxus burrelli | Description