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Cardinal Snapper

Pristipomoides macrophthalmus

Classification

Pristipomoides macrophthalmus, the cardinal snapper or bigeye snapper, is a species of ray-finned fish, a snapper belonging to the family Lutjanidae. It is found in the western Atlantic Ocean. Taxonomy Pristipomoides macrophthalmus was first formally described in 1848 as Centropristis macrophthalmus by the German zoologists Johannes Peter Müller and Franz Herman Troschel with the type locality given as Barbados.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Netherlands · 3United Kingdom · 1