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Lutjanus jocu Dog Snapper, Dog Snapper, Dogteeth Pargue, Dogteeth Snapper, Dogtooth Pargue, Snaggletooth Snapper, Dog's Tooth Snapper

Lutjanus jocuis commonly referred to as Dog Snapper, Dog Snapper, Dogteeth Pargue, Dogteeth Snapper, Dogtooth Pargue, Snaggletooth Snapper, Dog's Tooth Snapper. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for home aquaria!. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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lexID:
5700 
AphiaID:
159798 
Scientific:
Lutjanus jocu 
German:
Schnapper 
English:
Dog Snapper, Dog Snapper, Dogteeth Pargue, Dogteeth Snapper, Dogtooth Pargue, Snaggletooth Snapper, Dog's Tooth Snapper 
Category:
Snappers 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Lutjanidae (Family) > Lutjanus (Genus) > jocu (Species) 
Initial determination:
(Bloch & Schneider, ), 1801 
Occurrence:
Barbados, Suriname, Belize, Bermuda, Brazil, Columbia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, East-Atlantic Ocean, French Guiana, Guatemala, Gulf of Mexico, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico (East Pacific), Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, São Tomé e Principé, South America, The Bahamas, the Caribbean, the Cayman Islands, the Netherlands Antilles, USA, Venezuela, West-Atlantic Ocean 
Sea depth:
2 - 40 Meter 
Size:
23.62" - 50.39" (60cm - 128cm) 
Temperature:
71.6 °F - 82.4 °F (22°C - 28°C) 
Food:
Clams, Crabs, Crustaceans, Edible crab, Fish (little fishes), Mantis shrimps, Predatory, Rock lobster, Rock shrimps, Schrimps, Sepia, Snails, Zoobenthos 
Difficulty:
Not suitable for home aquaria! 
Offspring:
Not available as offspring 
Toxicity:
Toxic hazard unknown 
CITES:
Not evaluated 
Red List:
Data deficient (DD) 
Related species at
Catalog of Life:
 
More related species
in this lexicon:
 
Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2013-07-06 13:29:17 

Info

(Bloch & Schneider, 1801)

Adults are common around rocky or coral reefs. Young are found in estuaries and occasionally enters rivers. Feed mainly on fishes and benthic invertebrates, including shrimps, crabs, gastropods and cephalopods.
Text source: FishBase

Synonyms.
Anthias jocu Bloch & Schneider, 1801
Mesoprion litura Cuvier, 1828

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopteri (Class) > Perciformes (Order) > Percoidei (Suborder) > Lutjanidae (Family) > Lutjanus (Genus) > Lutjanus jocu (Species)

Scientific paper

  1. Morphology and phylogeny of Henneguya jocu n. sp. (Myxosporea, Myxobolidae), infecting the gills of the marine fish Lutjanus jocu, Azevedo, Carlos; Rocha, Sónia; Matos, Patrícia; Matos, Edilson; Oliveira, Elsa; Al-Quraishy, Saleh; Casal, Graça , 2014
  2. Ultrastructure of novel thrombocytes in the dog snapper Lutjanus jocu, Azevedo, C.; Matos, P.; Rocha, S.; Matos, E.; Oliveira, E.; Al-Quraishy, S.; Casal, G. , 2014
  3. Use of riverine through reef habitat systems by dog snapper (Lutjanus jocu) in eastern Brazil, Rodrigo L. Moura; Ronaldo B. Francini-Filho; Eduardo M. Chaves; Carolina V. Minte-Vera; Kenyon C. Lindeman, 2011

External links

  1. FishBase (multi). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  2. Homepage Ole Johann Brett (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
  3. World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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