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genus Lutjanus - type genus of the Lutjanidae: snappers

fish genus - any of various genus of fish

family Lutjanidae, Lutjanidae - snappers

Lutjanus blackfordi, red snapper - an esteemed food fish with pinkish red head and body; common in the Atlantic coastal waters of North America and the Gulf of Mexico

gray snapper, grey snapper, Lutjanus griseus, mangrove snapper - found in shallow waters off the coast of Florida

Lutjanus apodus, schoolmaster - food fish of warm Caribbean and Atlantic waters

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References in periodicals archive

Within this family, 64 species compose the genus Lutjanus (Allen, 1985).

First occurrence of cubera snapper Lutjanus cyanopterus (Cuvier, 1828) in the southern Brazilian coast

chrysurus should not constitute its own genus but be included within the genus Lutjanus, owing to its ability to hybridize with a member of that genus.

Hybridization between two serranids, the coney (Cephalopholis fulva) and the creole-fish (Paranthias furcifer), at Bermuda *

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