FreshwaterBrackishSaltwater
Blacktail snapper
Lutjanus fulvus
Lutjanidae, Lutjaninae
Facts
Characteristics
- Length
- Up to 40 cm
- Body shape
- Streamlined
Care
- Group
- Missing
- Smallest aquarium
- 1,464 liters
- Diet
- Missing
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Behavior
Water values
Smallest tank
Range
NativeIntroduced
Lives wild in Admiralty Is., American Samoa, Australia, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, and 53 more countries.
Introduced to United States.
More about the species
Description
Adults inhabit lagoon and semi-protected seaward reefs. They prefer sheltered areas with deep holes or large boulders. Benthopelagic. Solitary or in loose aggregations. Juveniles sometimes found in shallow mangrove swamps and the lower parts of freshwater streams. Adults feed at night on fishes, shrimps, crabs, holothurians and cephalopods. Commonly seen in markets, usually fresh. Caught with handlines, traps, and gill nets. This fish sometimes causes ciguatera poisoning, particularly in the Pacific portion of its range. Maximum depth reported taken from Ref. 9773.
Other names
Other scientific names
- Diacope analis
- Diacope aurantiaca
- Diacope flavipes
- Diacope immaculata
- Diacope marginata
- Diacope vaigiensis
In other languages
- Sorthalet snapper
- Black-tail snapper, Blacktailed snapper, Flametail snapper, Redmargined seaperch, Silver snapper, Snapper, Taiva, Waigeu snapper, Yellow striped snapper, Yellow-margined sea perch, Yellow-margined sea-perch, Yellow-margined seaperch, Yellowmargined sea perch, Yellowmargined seaperch
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