Lutjanus

Lutjanus is a genus of snappers found in the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans. They are predatory fish usually found in tropical and subtropical reefs, and mangrove forests.[1] This genus also includes two species (L. fuscescens and L. maxweberi) that only occur in fresh and brackish waters.[1]

Lutjanus
Lutjanus kasmira
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Perciformes
Family:	Lutjanidae
Genus:	Lutjanus Bloch, 1790
Type species
Lutjanus lutjanus Bloch, 1790
Synonyms
Bennettia Fowler, 1904 Diacope Cuvier, 1815 Evoplites Gill, 1862 Genyoroge Cantor, 1849 Hobar Forsskål, 1775 (not used) Jordanichthys Evermann & Clark, 1928 Loxolutjanus Fowler, 1931 Lutianus Bloch, 1790 (misspelling by original and subsequent authors) Mesoprion Cuvier, 1828 Naqua Forsskål, 1775 (not available) Neomaenis Girard, 1858 Neomesoprion Castelnau, 1875 Parkia Fowler, 1904 Percaprionodes Fowler, 1944 Rabirubia Jordan & Fesler, 1893 Raizero Jordan & Fesler, 1893 Rhomboplitoides Fowler, 1918

Species

Lutjanus bohar

Lutjanus ehrenbergii

Lutjanus gibbus

Lutjanus monostigma

Currently, 73 recognized species are placed in this genus:[2]

• Lutjanus adetii (Castelnau, 1873) (yellow-banded snapper)
• Lutjanus agennes Bleeker, 1863 (African red snapper)
• Lutjanus alexandrei R. L. Moura & Lindeman, 2007 (Brazilian snapper)
• Lutjanus ambiguus (Poey, 1860) (ambiguous snapper)
• Lutjanus analis (Cuvier, 1828) (mutton snapper)
• Lutjanus apodus (Walbaum, 1792) (schoolmaster snapper)
• Lutjanus aratus (Günther, 1864) (mullet snapper)
• Lutjanus argentimaculatus (Forsskål, 1775) (mangrove red snapper)
• Lutjanus argentiventris (W. K. H. Peters, 1869) (yellow snapper)
• Lutjanus bengalensis (Bloch, 1790) (Bengal snapper)
• Lutjanus biguttatus (Valenciennes, 1830) (two-spot banded snapper)
• Lutjanus bitaeniatus (Valenciennes, 1830) (Indonesian snapper)
• Lutjanus bohar (Forsskål, 1775) (two-spot red snapper)
• Lutjanus boutton (Lacépède, 1802) (Moluccan snapper)
• Lutjanus buccanella (Cuvier, 1828) (blackfin snapper)
• Lutjanus campechanus (Poey, 1860) (northern red snapper)
• Lutjanus carponotatus (J. Richardson, 1842) (Spanish flag snapper)
• Lutjanus coeruleolineatus (Rüppell, 1838) (blue-line snapper)
• Lutjanus colorado D. S. Jordan & C. H. Gilbert, 1882 (Colorado snapper)
• Lutjanus cyanopterus (Cuvier, 1828) (cubera snapper)
• Lutjanus decussatus (Cuvier, 1828) (checkered snapper)
• Lutjanus dentatus (A. H. A. Duméril, 1861) (African brown snapper)
• Lutjanus dodecacanthoides (Bleeker, 1854) (sunbeam snapper)
• Lutjanus ehrenbergii (W. K. H. Peters, 1869) (black-spot snapper)
• Lutjanus endecacanthus Bleeker, 1863 (Guinea snapper)
• Lutjanus erythropterus Bloch, 1790 (crimson snapper)
• Lutjanus fulgens (Valenciennes, 1830) (golden African snapper)
• Lutjanus fulviflamma (Forsskål, 1775) (dory snapper)
• Lutjanus fulvus (J. R. Forster, 1801) (black-tail snapper)
• Lutjanus fuscescens (Valenciennes, 1830) (freshwater snapper)
• Lutjanus gibbus (Forsskål, 1775) (humpback red snapper)
• Lutjanus goldiei (W. J. Macleay, 1882) (Papuan black snapper)
• Lutjanus goreensis (Valenciennes, 1830) (Gorean snapper)
• Lutjanus griseus (Linnaeus, 1758) (grey snapper)
• Lutjanus guilcheri Fourmanoir, 1959 (yellow-fin red snapper)
• Lutjanus guttatus (Steindachner, 1869) (spotted rose snapper)
• Lutjanus indicus G. R. Allen, W. T. White & Erdmann, 2013[3]
• Lutjanus inermis (W. K. H. Peters, 1869) (golden snapper)
• Lutjanus jocu (Bloch & J. G. Schneider, 1801) (dog snapper)
• Lutjanus johnii (Bloch, 1792) (John's snapper)
• Lutjanus jordani (C. H. Gilbert, 1898) (Jordan's snapper)
• Lutjanus kasmira (Forsskål, 1775) (common blue-striped snapper)
• Lutjanus lemniscatus (Valenciennes, 1828) (yellow-streaked snapper)
• Lutjanus lunulatus (M. Park, 1797) (lunar-tail snapper)
• Lutjanus lutjanus Bloch, 1790 (big-eye snapper)
• Lutjanus madras (Valenciennes, 1831) (Indian snapper)[4]
• Lutjanus mahogoni (Cuvier, 1828) (mahogany snapper)
• Lutjanus malabaricus (Bloch & J. G. Schneider, 1801) (Malabar blood snapper)
• Lutjanus maxweberi Popta, 1921 (pygmy snapper)
• Lutjanus mizenkoi G. R. Allen & Talbot, 1985 (Samoan snapper)
• Lutjanus monostigma (Cuvier, 1828) (one-spot snapper)
• Lutjanus notatus (Cuvier, 1828) (blue-striped snapper)
• Lutjanus novemfasciatus T. N. Gill, 1862 (Pacific dog snapper or Pacific cubera snapper[5]
• Lutjanus octolineatus (Cuvier, 1828) (white-belly snapper)[6]
• Lutjanus ophuysenii (Bleeker, 1860) (spot-stripe snapper)
• Lutjanus papuensis G. R. Allen, W. T. White & Erdmann, 2013 (Papuan snapper)[3]
• Lutjanus peru (Nichols & R. C. Murphy, 1922) (Pacific red snapper)
• Lutjanus purpureus (Poey, 1866) (southern red snapper)
• Lutjanus quinquelineatus (Bloch, 1790) (five-lined snapper)
• Lutjanus rivulatus (Cuvier, 1828) (blubber-lip snapper)
• Lutjanus rufolineatus (Valenciennes, 1830) (yellow-lined snapper)
• Lutjanus russellii (Bleeker, 1849) (Russell's snapper)
• Lutjanus sanguineus (Cuvier, 1828) (humphead snapper)
• Lutjanus sapphirolineatus Iwatsuki, Al-Mamry & Heemstra, 2016 (Arabian blue-striped snapper)[6]
• Lutjanus sebae (Cuvier, 1816) (emperor red snapper)
• Lutjanus semicinctus Quoy & Gaimard, 1824 (black-banded snapper)
• Lutjanus stellatus Akazaki, 1983 (star snapper)
• Lutjanus synagris (Linnaeus, 1758) (Lane snapper)
• Lutjanus timorensis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) (Timor snapper)
• Lutjanus viridis (Valenciennes, 1846) (blue and gold snapper)
• Lutjanus vitta (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) (brown-stripe red snapper)
• Lutjanus vivanus (Cuvier, 1828) (silk snapper)
• Lutjanus xanthopinnis Iwatsuki, F. Tanaka & G. R. Allen, 2015 (yellow-fin snapper)[4]

References

1. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2016). Species of Lutjanus in FishBase. January 2016 version.
2. Allen, G. R.; Talbot, F. H. (1985). "Review of the Snappers of the Genus Lutjanus (Pisces: Lutjanidae) from the Indo-Pacific, with the Description of a New Species". Indo-Pacific fishes. Honolulu: Bishop Museum. 11: 1–87 pp., 80 col figd.
3. Allen, G.R., White, W.T. & Erdmann, M.V. (2013). "Two new species of snappers (Pisces: Lutjanidae: Lutjanus) from the Indo-West Pacific" (PDF). Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation. 6: 33–51.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
4. Iwatsuki, Y., Tanaka, F. & Allen, G.R. (2015). "Lutjanus xanthopinnis, a new species of snapper (Pisces: Lutjanidae) from the Indo-west Pacific, with a redescription of Lutjanus madras (Valenciennes 1831)" (PDF). Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation. 17: 22–42.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
5. "Species: Lutjanus novemfasciatus, Pacific cubera snapper, Pacific dog snapper". Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.
6. Iwatsuki, Y., Al-Mamry, J.M. & Heemstra, P.C. (2016): Validity of a blue stripe snapper, Lutjanus octolineatus (Cuvier 1828) and a related species, L. bengalensis (Bloch 1790) with a new species (Pisces; Lutjanidae) from the Arabian Sea. Zootaxa, 4098 (3): 511–528.