112 Species in Family Lutjanidae
Nominal species list for Lutjanidae
Scientific Name Author English Name
Aphareus furca (Lacepède, 1801) Small toothed jobfish
Aphareus rutilans Cuvier, 1830 Rusty jobfish
Aprion virescens Valenciennes, 1830 Green jobfish
Apsilus dentatus Guichenot, 1853 Black snapper
Apsilus fuscus Valenciennes, 1830 African forktail snapper
Etelis carbunculus Cuvier, 1828 Deep-water red snapper
Etelis coruscans Valenciennes, 1862 Deepwater longtail red snapper
Etelis oculatus (Valenciennes, 1828) Queen snapper
Etelis radiosus Anderson, 1981 Pale snapper
Hoplopagrus guentherii Gill, 1862 Mexican barred snapper
Lipocheilus carnolabrum (Chan, 1970) Tang's snapper
Lutjanus adetii (Castelnau, 1873) Yellow-banded snapper
Lutjanus agennes Bleeker, 1863 African red snapper
Lutjanus alexandrei Moura & Lindeman, 2007
Lutjanus ambiguus (Poey, 1860) Ambiguous snapper
Lutjanus analis (Cuvier, 1828) Mutton snapper
Lutjanus apodus (Walbaum, 1792) Schoolmaster snapper
Lutjanus aratus (Günther, 1864) Mullet snapper
Lutjanus argentimaculatus (Forsskål, 1775) Mangrove red snapper
Lutjanus argentiventris (Peters, 1869) Yellow snapper
Lutjanus bengalensis (Bloch, 1790) Bengal snapper
Lutjanus biguttatus (Valenciennes, 1830) Two-spot banded snapper
Lutjanus bitaeniatus (Valenciennes, 1830) Indonesian snapper
Lutjanus bohar (Forsskål, 1775) Two-spot red snapper
Lutjanus boutton (Lacepède, 1802) Moluccan snapper
Lutjanus buccanella (Cuvier, 1828) Blackfin snapper
Lutjanus campechanus (Poey, 1860) Northern red snapper
Lutjanus carponotatus (Richardson, 1842) Spanish flag snapper
Lutjanus coeruleolineatus (Rüppell, 1838) Blueline snapper
Lutjanus colorado Jordan & Gilbert, 1882 Colorado snapper
Lutjanus cyanopterus (Cuvier, 1828) Cubera snapper
Lutjanus decussatus (Cuvier, 1828) Checkered snapper
Lutjanus dentatus (Duméril, 1861) African brown snapper
Lutjanus dodecacanthoides (Bleeker, 1854) Sunbeam snapper
Lutjanus ehrenbergii (Peters, 1869) Blackspot snapper
Lutjanus endecacanthus Bleeker, 1863 Guinea snapper
Lutjanus erythropterus Bloch, 1790 Crimson snapper
Lutjanus fulgens (Valenciennes, 1830) Golden African snapper
Lutjanus fulviflamma (Forsskål, 1775) Dory snapper
Lutjanus fulvus (Forster, 1801) Blacktail snapper
Lutjanus fuscescens (Valenciennes, 1830) Freshwater snapper
Lutjanus gibbus (Forsskål, 1775) Humpback red snapper
Lutjanus goldiei (Macleay, 1882) Papuan black snapper
Lutjanus goreensis (Valenciennes, 1830) Gorean snapper
Lutjanus griseus (Linnaeus, 1758) Grey snapper
Lutjanus guilcheri Fourmanoir, 1959 Yellowfin red snapper
Lutjanus guttatus (Steindachner, 1869) Spotted rose snapper
Lutjanus indicus Allen, White & Erdmann, 2013
Lutjanus inermis (Peters, 1869) Golden snapper
Lutjanus jocu (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) Dog snapper
Lutjanus johnii (Bloch, 1792) John's snapper
Lutjanus jordani (Gilbert, 1898) Jordan's snapper
Lutjanus kasmira (Forsskål, 1775) Common bluestripe snapper
Lutjanus lemniscatus (Valenciennes, 1828) Yellowstreaked snapper
Lutjanus lunulatus (Park, 1797) Lunartail snapper
Lutjanus lutjanus Bloch, 1790 Bigeye snapper
Lutjanus madras (Valenciennes, 1831) Indian snapper
Lutjanus mahogoni (Cuvier, 1828) Mahogany snapper
Lutjanus malabaricus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) Malabar blood snapper
Lutjanus maxweberi Popta, 1921 Pygmy snapper
Lutjanus mizenkoi Allen & Talbot, 1985 Samoan snapper
Lutjanus monostigma (Cuvier, 1828) One-spot snapper
Lutjanus notatus (Cuvier, 1828) Bluestriped snapper
Lutjanus novemfasciatus Gill, 1862 Pacific dog snapper
Lutjanus octolineatus (Cuvier, 1828) Whitebelly snapper
Lutjanus ophuysenii (Bleeker, 1860) Spotstripe snapper
Lutjanus papuensis Allen, White & Erdmann, 2013 Papuan snapper
Lutjanus peru (Nichols & Murphy, 1922) Pacific red snapper
Lutjanus purpureus (Poey, 1866) Southern red snapper
Lutjanus quinquelineatus (Bloch, 1790) Five-lined snapper
Lutjanus rivulatus (Cuvier, 1828) Blubberlip snapper
Lutjanus rufolineatus (Valenciennes, 1830) Yellow-lined snapper
Lutjanus russellii (Bleeker, 1849) Russell's snapper
Lutjanus sanguineus (Cuvier, 1828) Humphead snapper
Lutjanus sapphirolineatus Iwatsuki, Al-Mamry & Heemstra, 2016 Arabian blue-striped snapper
Lutjanus sebae (Cuvier, 1816) Emperor red snapper
Lutjanus semicinctus Quoy & Gaimard, 1824 Black-banded snapper
Lutjanus stellatus Akazaki, 1983 Star snapper
Lutjanus synagris (Linnaeus, 1758) Lane snapper
Lutjanus timoriensis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) Timor snapper
Lutjanus viridis (Valenciennes, 1846) Blue and gold snapper
Lutjanus vitta (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) Brownstripe red snapper
Lutjanus vivanus (Cuvier, 1828) Silk snapper
Macolor macularis Fowler, 1931 Midnight snapper
Macolor niger (Forsskål, 1775) Black and white snapper
Ocyurus chrysurus (Bloch, 1791) Yellowtail snapper
Paracaesio caerulea (Katayama, 1934) Japanese snapper
Paracaesio gonzalesi Fourmanoir & Rivaton, 1979 Vanuatu snapper
Paracaesio kusakarii Abe, 1960 Saddle-back snapper
Paracaesio paragrapsimodon Anderson & Kailola, 1992
Paracaesio sordida Abe & Shinohara, 1962 Dirty ordure snapper
Paracaesio stonei Raj & Seeto, 1983 Cocoa snapper
Paracaesio waltervadi Anderson & Collette, 1992
Paracaesio xanthura (Bleeker, 1869) Yellowtail blue snapper
Parapristipomoides squamimaxillaris (Kami, 1973) Scalemouth jobfish
Pinjalo lewisi Randall, Allen & Anderson, 1987 Slender pinjalo
Pinjalo pinjalo (Bleeker, 1850) Pinjalo
Pristipomoides aquilonaris (Goode & Bean, 1896) Wenchman
Pristipomoides argyrogrammicus (Valenciennes, 1832) Ornate jobfish
Pristipomoides auricilla (Jordan, Evermann & Tanaka, 1927) Goldflag jobfish
Pristipomoides filamentosus (Valenciennes, 1830) Crimson jobfish
Pristipomoides flavipinnis Shinohara, 1963 Golden eye jobfish
Pristipomoides freemani Anderson, 1966 Slender wenchman
Pristipomoides macrophthalmus (Müller & Troschel, 1848) Cardinal snapper
Pristipomoides multidens (Day, 1871) Goldbanded jobfish
Pristipomoides sieboldii (Bleeker, 1855) Lavender jobfish
Pristipomoides typus Bleeker, 1852 Sharptooth jobfish
Pristipomoides zonatus (Valenciennes, 1830) Oblique-banded snapper
Randallichthys filamentosus (Fourmanoir, 1970) Randall's snapper
Rhomboplites aurorubens (Cuvier, 1829) Vermilion snapper
Symphorichthys spilurus (Günther, 1874) Sailfin snapper
Symphorus nematophorus (Bleeker, 1860) Chinamanfish
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