Vermilion snapper
Encyclopedia
The vermilion snapper is an abundant species of fish
found along the North America
n coast of the Atlantic Ocean
from North Carolina
to Bermuda
and throughout the Gulf of Mexico
to Brazil
. The vermilion snapper is often sold as red snapper
.
Local names for the fish include the Beeline snapper, B-Liner, California Red Snapper, Mingo, Mutton Snapper
Fish
Fish are a paraphyletic group of organisms that consist of all gill-bearing aquatic vertebrate animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish, as well as various extinct related groups...
found along the North America
North America
North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...
n coast of the Atlantic Ocean
Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's oceanic divisions. With a total area of about , it covers approximately 20% of the Earth's surface and about 26% of its water surface area...
from North Carolina
North Carolina
North Carolina is a state located in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north. North Carolina contains 100 counties. Its capital is Raleigh, and its largest city is Charlotte...
to Bermuda
Bermuda
Bermuda is a British overseas territory in the North Atlantic Ocean. Located off the east coast of the United States, its nearest landmass is Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, about to the west-northwest. It is about south of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and northeast of Miami, Florida...
and throughout the Gulf of Mexico
Gulf of Mexico
The Gulf of Mexico is a partially landlocked ocean basin largely surrounded by the North American continent and the island of Cuba. It is bounded on the northeast, north and northwest by the Gulf Coast of the United States, on the southwest and south by Mexico, and on the southeast by Cuba. In...
to Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
. The vermilion snapper is often sold as red snapper
Red snapper (fish)
The red snapper, Lutjanus campechanus, is a fish found in the Gulf of Mexico and the southeastern Atlantic coast of the United States and, much less commonly, northward as far as Massachusetts. In Latin American Spanish it is known as huachinango or pargo...
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Local names for the fish include the Beeline snapper, B-Liner, California Red Snapper, Mingo, Mutton Snapper
External links
- Species Fact Sheet, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- Vermilion Snapper (Rhomboplites aurorubens), Panama Citiy Laboratory, U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service
- Genetic Stock Structure of Vermilion Snapper, Report to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, July, 2005
- Vermilion Snapper (Rhomboplites aurorubens), Texas Parks and Wildlife