AQUADICO


Yellowtail snapper

Ocyurus chrysurus

Distribution: Caribbean and western Atlantic.       

Description: size between 15 and 30 cm
   The body color is cream and a yellow stripe runs through the middle of the body of the cap to the tail. Yellow caudal fin is forked.  

Habitat: This is observed in fish group, he lives in crevices or rock overhangs in the coral reef from the surface to a depth of thirty meters.

Food: carnivorous fish, feeds mainly on mollusks, marine worms and small crustaceans.
          
  
 


Taxonomic classification


Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Sub class: Neopterygii To print in "PDF" format
Order: Perciformes Sub order: Percoidei Family: Lutjanidae
Genus: Ocyurus Species: chrysurus Descriptor: Bloch, 1791