![]() This Madagascan fish however is distinct from the common bluestripe snapper found in arc extending from Arabia to well past Indonesia (and overlaps with the bluestriped off northern Madagascar). For instance, the African forktail snapper is only found off the west coast of Africa between Senegal and Namibia and the bluestriped snapper is only found off Madagascar and the opposite East African coast. Admire the emperor and almost all the other snappers on this FishBase page (but we think their picture of the lane snapper doesn’t do it justice). The top prize for sheer gaudiness goes to the emperor red snapper. Quite a few species have spectacular stripes, sometimes horizontal, sometimes vertical. Yellow and blue are other popular colours in the snapper family. ![]() About 24 species of snappers are red or primarily red, although only half of these get the word red or a hint of it in their names: crimson, ruby, vermillion, scarlet, humpback red, cardinal, emperor red, Pacific red, southern red, northern red, yellowfin red, African red and deep-water red. Yellow? All 3!Īt first sight they seem to be quite a diverse group, at least colourwise. Scientists call this group the lutjanids and the Latin names of over half of them commence with the word Lutjanus.Ĭolour me red. Perhaps another 20 species have been identified since then. (More species means more records.) The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation listed 103 species in its 1985 publication, Snappers of the World. The International Game Fish Association reckons there are 250 species of snapper, but that may be because it likes to be kind to its members. Over the last 200 years, some 380 species of snapper have been identified and assigned portentous Latin names, but most of these had already been discovered and named by someone else, usually Achille Valenciennes and George Cuvier who, starting in 1828, published the 20 volume Histoire Naturelle des Poissons pinning down 2,000 species of fish including 76 snappers.
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