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Bluestripe snapper
lutjanus kasmira
Distribution: Indo-Pacific: Red Sea and East Africa, Marquesas and a line that goes to the north to southern Japan south to Australia. Habitat: Coral Reefs. Frequently found in large aggregations around the coral formation, caves or wrecks during the day. Description: Size entre15 and 20 cm. The body color is lemon yellow dotted with blue diagonal lines, the fins are yellow and the lips are blue. Food: fish, shrimp, crabs, stomatopods and cephalopods and planktonic crustaceans. |
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Taxonomic classification
| Phylum: | Chordata | Class: | Actinopterygii | Sub class: | Neopterygii | To print in "PDF" format |
| Order: | Perciformes | Sub order: | Percoidei | Family: | Lutjanidae | |
| Genus: | lutjanus | Species: | kasmira | Descriptor: | Boddaert, 1772 |  |