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The habitat is variable and includes irregular bottom area offshore, such as coral reefs, rock ledges, and wrecks, to a depth of about 300 feet. Young fish are sometimes found as north as Massachusetts.

The gray snapper commonly occurs in the westen Atlantic from the northern coast of Florida to Rio de Janeiro. The lower sides and belly are grayish with a reddish tinge, while the back and upper sides are dark gray to gray-green. The body coloration of the gray snapper is highly variable. The pattern of teeth in the gray snapper is anchor-shapped, unlike the triangular shape of the cubera snapper. It is often confused with the cubera snapper because of body shape and presence of large canine teeth.

The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. "Order LUTJANIFORMES: Families HAEMULIDAE and LUTJANIDAE". Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). As ambush predators, they often dwell around mangrove roots, fallen trees, rock walls, and any other snag areas where smaller prey reside for protection. The species is carnivorous they are predators, feeding mainly at night on fish, crustaceans, gastropods, and cephalopod molluscs. These larger fish are sometimes caught by bottom-fishers with heavy tackle, though they still remain difficult to land due to their speed and proximity to sharp reef bottoms. As they mature, mangrove red snappers move into open waters, sometimes hundreds of kilometers from the coast to breed. They are also known to migrate to offshore reefs to spawn. Īs its name implies, the mangrove red snapper is commonly found in mangrove-lined estuarine systems, however some also make their way into complete freshwater systems, particularly at a juvenile age. However, the discovery of 3 large specimens in Greek waters in the late 2010s suggest that the mangrove red snapper is in the process of becoming established in the eastern Mediterranean. It has also been recorded from the coast of Lebanon in the Mediterranean Sea, having reached there from the Red Sea through the Suez Canal as a Lessepsian migrant, though it is not established in the Mediterranean.

The mangrove red snapper is native to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean from the African coast to Samoa and the Line Islands and from the Ryukyus in the north to Australia in the south.

The red bass, however, is usually darker in coloration, has fewer dorsal-fin spines, scale rows on the back that rise obliquely from the lateral line, and a deep groove from the nostrils to the eyes. In reef areas, mangrove red snappers are sometimes confused with two-spot red snapper or red bass ( Lutjanus bohar), a known carrier of ciguatera toxin. These teeth can cause a nasty injury to unwary fishers. Like other tropical snappers (family Lutjanidae), mangrove jacks have prominent canine teeth in their jaws that are used for seizing and holding prey. Younger fish caught in estuarine areas are often darker than older fish taken from offshore reef areas, and exhibit lighter vertical bands down their flanks. It has a wide Indo-Pacific range and has recently been recorded in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.Ĭoloration of the mangrove red snapper ranges from burnt orange, to copper, to bronze and dark reddish-brown, depending on its age and environment. The mangrove red snapper ( Lutjanus argentimaculatus), also known as mangrove jack, grey snapper, creek red bream, Stuart evader, dog bream, purple sea perch, red bream, red perch, red reef bream, river roman, or rock barramundi, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a snapper belonging to the family Lutjanidae.