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Lavender Jobfish

Pristipomoides sieboldii

Classification

Pristipomoides sieboldii, the lavender jobfish, lavender snapper or von Siebold's snapper, is a species of ray-finned fish, which is a snapper belonging to the family Lutjanidae. It is found in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Taxonomy Pristipomoides multidens was first formally described in 1871 as Chaetopterus sieboldii by the Dutch ichthyologist, herpetologist and physician Pieter Bleeker in with its type locality given as Nagasaki.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 42