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Lutjanidae

A family of marine fishes, many economically important as food.

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Snappers inhabit tropical, subtropical, and warm-temperate regions of all oceans.[1] In tropical, subtropical, and warm-temperate ocean regions, snappers are found; most live near coral reefs at depths up to 100 m, while certain species occur as deep as 500 m.[1][2] Crustaceans and other fish make up the diet of most snappers, which are active carnivores; only a minority feed on plankton.[1]

Scientific classification

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumChordata
  3. ClassActinopterygii
  4. DivisionTeleostei
  5. OrderAcanthuriformes
  6. FamilyLutjanidae

Named by T. N. Gill, 1861

Sources: Wikipedia taxobox: Lutjanidae (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Key facts and history

Fossil genera include †Goujetia from the Early Eocene of Italy and †Hypsocephalus from the Late Eocene of Florida.[3] The cubera snapper reaches a maximum length of 1.52 m, and other snapper species can attain about 1 m in length.[1] Although snappers can be maintained in aquaria, their rapid growth usually prevents them from becoming favored aquarium species.[2] Parasites are hosted by certain snapper species, similar to what occurs in other fish groups.[4]

Because of their unique morphology, the fusiliers (formerly the family Caesionidae) were once considered a separate group.[5] Molecular evidence now shows that Caesionidae is paraphyletic relative to Lutjanidae, leading to the placement of its genera within the subfamily Lutjaninae.[5] A fossil skeleton from Cuba's Middle Eocene, possibly a lutjanid or cichlid, represents one of the earliest Caribbean records for this group.[6]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Lutjanidae" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Cubera Snapper", blog.mountthis.net; Bray, "LUTJANIDAE", Fishes of Australia (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Lutjanidae" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Bray, "LUTJANIDAE", Fishes of Australia (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Lutjanidae" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Frédérich, "Macroevolutionary analysis of the tempo of diversification in snappers and fusiliers (Percomorpha: Lutjanidae)", Belgian Journal of Zoology, 2017-07-14; Bannikov, "Fishes from the Eocene of Bolca, northern Italy, previously classified in the Sparidae, Serranidae and Haemulidae (Perciformes)", Geodiversitas, 2006, p. 249–275; Swift, "Hypsocephalus atlanticus, a new genus and species of Lutjanid fish from marine Eocene limestones of northern Florida", Contributions in Science, 1972-06-23, p. 1––29; Bannikov, "A new genus and specie en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Lutjanidae" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Justine, "An annotated list of fish parasites (Isopoda, Copepoda, Monogenea, Digenea, Cestoda, Nematoda) collected from Snappers and Bream (Lutjanidae, Nemipteridae, Caesionidae) in New Caledonia confirms high parasite b (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Lutjanidae" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Fishes of the World", Wiley, 2016, p. 457–458; Frédérich, "Macroevolutionary analysis of the tempo of diversification in snappers and fusiliers (Percomorpha: Lutjanidae)", Belgian Journal of Zoology, 2017-07-14 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Lutjanidae" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Bannikov, "Redescription of "Pelates" quindecimalis Agassiz, 1836, percoid fish (Perciformes) from the Eocene of Bolca, Italy", Miscellanea Paleontologica n. 9. Studi e Ricerche sui Giacimenti Terziari di Bolca, 2008, p.; León, "Two Early Middle Eocene Marine Fish from eastern Cuba", Poeyana, 2023 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Lutjanidae (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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