Lutjanus apodus

• Overview
• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Biology
• Taxonomy
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• Further Reading
• Notes

Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Occurs in shallow, clear, warm, coastal waters over coral reefs. Often near the shelter of elkhorn corals and gorgonians [1]. Juveniles are encountered over sand bottoms with or without seagrass (Thalassia), and over muddy bottoms of lagoons or mangrove areas. Young sometimes enter brackish waters.

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 3,664 meters (0 to 12,021 feet).[2]

Biology

Diet

Feeds on fishes , shrimps, crabs, worms, gastropods and cephalopods .

Behavior

Sometimes forms resting aggregations during the day.

Sound types : thumps, knocks, booms, escape sounds. Sound organ: swim bladder. Sonic mechanism: not specified.

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Bodianus albostriatus Bloch & Schneider • Bodianus fasciatus Bloch & Schneider • Bodianus striatus Bloch & Schneider • Lutjanus acutirostris Desmarest • Lutjanus apodus • Lutjanus apodus (Walbaum, 1792) • Lutjanus caxi (Bloch & Schneider • Mesoprion canis Buettikofer • Mesoprion caxis (Bloch & Schneider • Mesoprion cynodon Cuvier • Mesoprion flavescens Cuvier • Mesoprion linea Cuvier • Neomaneis apodus (Walbaum • Perca apoda • Perca apoda Walbaum • Perca apoda Walbaum, 1792 • Sparus caxis Bloch & Schneider

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: Data last modified by FishBase 18-Feb-1994

Similar Species

Members of the genus Lutjanus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 94 species and subspecies in this genus:

L. adetii (Yellow-Banded Sergeant-Major) · L. agennes (African Cubera Snapper) · L. alexandrei (Brazilian Snapper) · L. altifrontalis (Mangrove Red Snapper) · L. ambiguus (Ambiguous Snapper) · L. analis (Virgin Snapper) · L. apodus (Schoolmaster Snapper) · L. aratus (Mullet Snapper) · L. argentimaculatus (Silver-Spotted Gray Snapper) · L. argentiventris (Yellowtail Snapper) · L. bengalensis (Bengal Snapper) · L. biguttatus (Two-Spot Banded Seaperch) · L. bitaeniatus (Indonesian Shortfin Eel) · L. bohar (Two-Spot Banded-Snapper) · L. boutton (Moluccen Snapper) · L. buccanella (Blackfin Red Snapper) · L. caeruleolineatus (Blue Line Snapper) · L. campechanus (Carribbean Red Snapper) · L. campechianus (Golden-Banded Snapper) · L. carponotatus (Dusky-Striped Sea-Perch) · L. chrysotaenia (Goldbanded Sea Perch) · L. coatesi (Kelp Sea Perch) · L. coeruleolineatus (Blue Line Snapper) · L. colorado (Colorado Snapper) · L. cyanopterus (Canteen Snapper) · L. decussatus (Crossbanded Snapper) · L. dentatus (African Brown Snapper) · L. diacanthus (Blackspotted Croacker) · L. dodecacanthoides (Sunbeam Snapper) · L. ehrenbergi (Ehrenberg's Seaperch) · L. ehrenbergii (Ehrenbergs´ Seaperch) · L. endecacanthus (Guinea Snapper) · L. ephippium (Red Saddleback Anemonefish) · L. erythropterus (Saddle-Tailed Sea-Perch) · L. fulgens (Golden African Snapper) · L. fulviflamma (Papuan Black Snapper) · L. fulvus (Yellow-Margined Sea Perch) · L. fuscescens (Freshwater Snake-Eel) · L. gibbus (Humpbacked Red Snapper) · L. goldiei (Papuan Black Snapper) · L. goreensis (Gorean Snapper) · L. griseus (Mangrove Snapper) · L. guilcheri (Yellowfin Red Snapper) · L. guineensis (Gorean Snapper) · L. guttatus (Rose Island Dottyback) · L. gymnocephalus (Naked-Head Glossy Perchlet) · L. hasta (Lined Silver Grunter) · L. hexagonus (Large-Scale Soldierfish) · L. inermis (Pacific Rabirubia) · L. jocu (Dog´s Tooth Snapper) · L. johni (Spotted-Scaled Sea Perch) · L. johnii (Spotted-Scaled Sea Perch) · L. jordani (Jordan´s Damsel) · L. kasmira (Common Blue-Strips Snapper) · L. lemniscatus (Yellowstreak Triggerfish) · L. lineolatus (Golden-Striped Snapper) · L. lunulatus (Lunartail Seaperch) · L. luteus (Torroto Grunt) · L. lutjanus (Big-Eye Snapper) · L. madras (Indian Short-Finned Eel) · L. mahogoni (Mahogony Snapper) · L. malabaricus (Big-Mouth Nannygai) · L. maxweberi (Pygmy Snapper) · L. melanocercus (Blacktailed Wrasse) · L. mizenkoi (Samoan Snapper) · L. monostigma (Black Spot Red Snapper) · L. monostigmus (Black Spot Snapper) · L. nematophorus (Chinaman-Fish) · L. notatus (Bluestripped Snapper) · L. novemfasciatus (Pacific Cubera Snapper) · L. ophuysenii (Spotstripe Snapper) · L. palloni (Scaled-Rayed Wrasse) · L. percula (Blackfinned Clownfish) · L. peru (Pacific Red Snapper) · L. purpureus (Caribbean Red Snapper) · L. quinquelineatus (Gold-Striped Sea-Perch) · L. rivulatus (Blue-Spotted Sea-Perch) · L. roissali (Five-Spotted Wrasse) · L. rufolineatus (Yellow-Striped Snapper) · L. russelli (Russell's One Spot Snapper) · L. russellii (Russell´s Mackerel-Scad) · L. sanguineus (Blood Snapper) · L. sebae (Emperor's Red-Snapper) · L. semicinctus (Black-Banded Seaperch) · L. stellatus (White-Spotted Snapper) · L. surinamensis (Thicklip Grunt) · L. synagris (Bream) · Anabas testudineus (Timor Seaperch) · L. timorensis (Red Snapper) · L. argentimaculatus (Yellowmargined Sea Perch) · L. viridis (Blue- And- Gold Snapper) · L. vitta (Blackstriped Snapper) · L. vittus (Brown Stripe Red Snapper) · L. vivanus (Yellow-Eyed (Red) Snapper)

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Further Reading

• A Directory of Neotropical Wetlands. IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre url p. 539.
• A list of common and scientific names of fishes from the United States and Canada. Report presented at the eighty-ninth annual meeting, Clearwater, Fla., Sept. 16-18, 1959. Ann Arbor, Mich., 1960. url p. 26.
• Allan Hancock Atlantic expedition / University of Southern California. Los Angeles, Calif.: The University, 1945-[1964] url p. 20, p. 45.
• Bergey's manual of determinative bacteriology, by Robert S. Breed [and others] Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins Co., 1957. url p. 322.
• Commercial fisheries review. [Washington]: National Marine Fisheries Service; [for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.] url p. 41.
• FWS/0BS. [Washington]Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Dept. of the Interior. url p. 169, p. 54.
• Final environmental impact statement prepared on the proposed Looe Key National Marine Sanctuary. [Washington, D.C.]: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Office of Coastal Zone Management, [1980] url p. 18.
• Fishery bulletin / U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service. Washington, D.C.: The Service: url p. 373, p. 380, p. 515, p. 622, p. 697, p. 734, p. 735, p. 875, p. 989.
• Fishery bulletin. United States Fish and Wildlife Service. Washington, The Service, U.S. Govt Print. Off. url p. 338.
• Fishes of the Bahama Islands / by Barton A. Bean. 1905 Baltimore: The Geographical Society of Baltimore, 1905. url p. 309.
• Our living oceans: the first annual report on the status of U.S. living marine resources. [Washington, D.C.]: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, 1991. url p. 117.
• Pesticides monitoring journal. [Washington, D.C.: For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 1967-1981. url p. 42.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 130.
• Proceedings of the Washington Academy of Sciences. Washington, Washington Academy of Sciences. url p. 170.
• Special scientific report. Seattle, National Marine Fisheries Service; for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1949-1971. url p. 11.
• The Bahama Islands / edited by George Burbank Shattuck. New York: Macmillan, 1905. url p. 309.
• Tulane studies in zoology and botany. 15 1969 New Orleans: Tulane University, [1968- url fig. 10, page 130, p. 145, p. 159, p. 160, p. 164, p. 170.
• Tulane studies in zoology. 7 1959 New Orleans: Tulane University, 1953-1968. url p. 113, p. 143.
• World Atlas of Coral Reefs UNEP-WCMC url p. 127, p. 137.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
• FishBase. Release date: January 5, 2010
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 01, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 6 providers.
• Paxton, John (from FishBase).
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 01, 2008:

• Canadian Museum of Nature: Canadian Museum of Nature Fish Collection
• FishBase: FishBase DiGIR Provider - Philippine Server
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Canadian Museum of Nature - Fish Collection (OBIS Canada)
• Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History: Vertebrate specimens
• Museum national d'histoire naturelle: Ichtyologie
• Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University: MCZ Fish Collection
• Royal Ontario Museum: Fish specimens
• UNIBIO, IBUNAM: CNPE/Coleccion Nacional de Peces

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 131141
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-23612
• Fishbase Species ID: 1404
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 168850
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 115764

Footnotes

1. Lieske, E. and R. Myers (1994). Collins Pocket Guide. Coral reef fishes. Indo-Pacific & Caribbean including the Red Sea. Haper Collins Publishers, 400 p. [back]
2. Mean = 402.950 meters (1,322.014 feet), Standard Deviation = 3,040.860 based on 40 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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