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A northern red snapper attains sexual maturity at two to five years old, and an adult snapper can live for more than 50 years. Research from 1999–2001 suggested the populations of red snapper off the coast of Texas reach maturity faster and at a smaller size than populations off of the Louisiana and Alabama coasts.
Lutjanus sebae, also known as red emperor, emperor red snapper, emperor snapper, government bream, king snapper, queenfish or red kelp, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a snapper belonging to the family Lutjanidae. It is native to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean.
The Humpback red snapper was first formally described in 1775 as Sciaena gibba by the Swedish speaking Finnish born explorer and naturalist Peter Forsskål with the type locality given as the Red Sea. [3] The specific name, gibbus means "humpbacked", a reference to high, steep dorsal profile on the head of the adults. [4]
It is also locally known as "red snapper", [2] [3] 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.
Red snapper is a common name of several fish species. It may refer to: Several species from the genus Lutjanus: Lutjanus campechanus, Northern red snapper, commonly ...
Lutjanus malabaricus, the Malabar blood snapper, saddletail snapper, large-mouthed nannygai, large-mouthed sea-perch, Malabar snapper, nannygai, red bass, red bream, red emperor, red Jew, red snapper, saddletail seaperch, scarlet emperor or scarlet sea-perch, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a snapper belonging to the family Lutjanidae.
The family includes about 113 species. Some are important food fish. One of the best known is the red snapper. Snappers inhabit tropical and subtropical regions of all oceans. Some snappers grow up to about 1 m (3.3 ft) in length, and one specific snapper, the cubera snapper, grows up to 1.52 m (5 ft 0 in) in length. [2]
Etelis boweni Andrews, Fernandez-Silva, Randall & H.-C. Ho, 2021 (Bowen’s snapper) [5] Etelis carbunculus G. Cuvier, 1828 (deep-water red snapper) Etelis coruscans Valenciennes, 1862 (deepwater longtail red snapper) Etelis oculatus (Valenciennes, 1828) (queen snapper) Etelis radiosus W. D. Anderson, 1981 (pale snapper)