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Vermilion Snapper

Rhomboplites aurorubens

Classification

The vermilion snapper (Rhomboplites aurorubens), the clubhead snapper, night snapper or beeliner is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a snapper belonging to the family Lutjanidae. It is native to the western Atlantic Ocean. Taxonomy The vermilion snapper was first formally described in 1829 as Centropristis aurorubens by the French zoologist Georges Cuvier with the type locality given as Brazil, Martinique and Santo Domingo.

Distribution

Jeffrey T. Williams · CC0
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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 670Brazil · 12Mexico · 9France · 6Netherlands · 1