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.
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