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Macolor macularis, the midnight snapper, midnight seaperch or black and white snapper, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a snapper belonging to the family Lutjanidae. It is native to the Indian and western Pacific Oceans.
The black and white snapper has a wide Indo-Pacific range. It occurs along the eastern coastline of Africa from the Red Sea south as far as South Africa, the Seychelles, islands in the Mozambique Channel, Madagascar and western Mascarenes, east to the Maldives, Laccadives, the Chagos Islands, Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Christmas Island and Sri Lanka.
Macolor snappers are medium-sized with a relatively deep, oblong body. They have quite a large mouth which can be ptrotracted. Each jaw has an outer band of conical teeth which are enlarged into canine-like teeth at the front, on the inside of these are bands of bristle-like teeth, at the side in the upper jaw and set anteriorly in the lower jaw.
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Lutjanus monostigma, Onespot snapper; Lutjanus quinquelineatus, Five-lined snapper; Lutjanus rivulatus, Blubberlip snapper; Lutjanus russellii, Russell's snapper; Lutjanus sanguineus, Humphead snapper; Lutjanus sebae, Emperor red snapper; Macolor niger, Black and white snapper; Paracaesio sordida, Dirty ordure snapper; Paracaesio xanthura ...
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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]
genus Macolor Bleeker, 1860; genus Ocyurus Gill, 1862; genus Pinjalo Bleeker, 1873; genus Rhomboplites Gill, 1862; A taxonomic study of snappers within the subfamily Lutjaninae in the tropical western Atlantic Ocean indicated that the monotypic genera Ocyurus and Rhomboplites sit within the genus Lutjanus. [4]