Lutjanus malabaricus Bloch & Schneider, 1801 Malabar

Yennawar, Prasanna, Mohapatra, Anil & Tudu, Prasad Chandra, 2017, An account of Ichthyofauna of Digha coast, West Bengal, Records of the Zoological Survey of India 117 (1), pp. 4-4 : 4-

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.26515/rzsi/v117/i1/2017/117289

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11226868

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B20633-FF8F-FFC4-FCB8-EDBDFE118157

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scientific name

Lutjanus malabaricus Bloch & Schneider, 1801 Malabar
status

 

26. Lutjanus malabaricus Bloch & Schneider, 1801 Malabar View in CoL red snapper (Figure 27)

Material examined: 1 ex., 08.06.2011, Mohana, Digha, Reg No. MARC /ZSI/F1829.

Description: D: 11; Dorsal soft rays (total): 12-14; Anal spines: 3; Anal soft rays: 8-9. Body relatively deep, dorsal profile of head steeply sloped; tongue smooth, without teeth;caudal fin truncate. Body red, pale in lower part; fins reddish; black band on caudal peduncle. Caught mainly by handlines, very common, commercially important and excellent food fish.

Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: Persian Gulf and Arabian Sea to Fiji, north to southern Japan, south to Australia.

Remarks: The fish is highly commercial, gamefish, ornamental. Size: 100 cm.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Order

Perciformes

Family

Lutjanidae

Genus

Lutjanus

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