Lutjanidae

Brown, Judith, Beard, Annalea, Clingham, Elizabeth, Fricke, Ronald, Henry, Leeann & Wirtz, Peter, 2019, The fishes of St Helena Island, central Atlantic Ocean-new records and an annotated check-list, Zootaxa 4543 (2), pp. 151-194 : 178-179

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4543.2.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:A1F0A157-D563-43E7-AD82-98D60E73D5F5
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5928075
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039C8787-6340-FFAB-FF0E-F8017C1DFEDF
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Lutjanidae
status

Treatment

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Lutjanus jocu (Bloch & Schneider [ex Parra], 1801)—Dog snapper (FAO) References: New record; caught by fishing vessel John Melliss ( Figure 15).

Remarks: This is a primarily a western Atlantic species (New England to Brazil) that is also known from Ascension. The pale triangle below the eye and reddish fins seems key distinguishing characters clearly visible in Figure 15.

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No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.

Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Actinopterygii
Order	Perciformes
Family	Lutjanidae

Specimens

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