Snappers Flashcards
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Blackfin Snapper
- All red with large black spot at base of pectoral fin
- Orange or bronze eyes
- Young have yellow patch on rear upper body and no black spot
- Up to 30 lbs
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Silk Snapper (yelloweye)
- Pinkish red becoming white towards bottom
- Bright yellow iris
- Pointed anal fin
- Black edge along fork of caudal fin (disappears when larger than 1 ft)
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Mutton Snapper
- Black spot on upper rear back
- Pointed anal fin
- Blue stripe below eye
- Bronze to red eye (not yellow)
- Often pinkish to red
- Up to 25 lbs (30 inches)
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Gray Snapper
- Dark with reddish/coppery tones
- Broad dark stripe from snout tip through eye to dorsal fin
- Round anal fin
- Anchor shaped tooth patch
- Up to 10 lbs
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Yellowtail Snapper
- Bright yellow stripe from snout tip to caudal fin
- Caudal fin bright yellow and deeply forked
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Lane Snapper
- Large round dark spot on side located below dorsal fin above lateral line
- Yellow/pinkish stripes “lanes”
- Rear edge of caudal fin black
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Vermilion Snapper
- Vomerine tooth patch different
- Entirely pale red
- Lower jaw projects
- Shallowly forked caudal fin
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Mahogany Snapper
- Black blotch centered on lateral line below soft dorsal fin
- Reddish caudal fin
- Head profile usually indented above eye
- Check vomerine patch to distinguish between this and mutton snapper
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Schoolmaster Snapper
- 8 narrow pale bars
- Yellowish fins
- Blue stripe below eye
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Dog Snapper
- Similar to schoolmaster except blue line below eye is often broken up into dots and yellow fins are less bright
- Distinctive silvery white ‘tear drop’ below eye
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Cubera Snapper
- Steely gray dark brown
- Crescent shaped vomerine tooth patch
- Pale irregular bars
- Largest Atlantic Snapper up to 125 lbs
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Queen Snapper
- Bright rosy red
- Deeply forked caudal fin
- Very large eye
- lobes elongated as streamers in adults
- Deeply notched dorsal fin
