Credit: Illustration by Diane Rome Peebles
Family Lutjanidae
Description: color pinkish red over entire body, whitish below; long triangular snout; anal fin sharply pointed; no dark lateral spot; red eye
Similar fish: red snapper, L. campechanus
Where found: offshore on the continental shelf, more plentiful off the Panhandle than in south or middle Florida.
Size: to 20 pounds
Remarks: juveniles occur over sandy or mud bottoms and are often taken in shrimp trawls; adults may live more than 20 years, and attain 35 pounds or more; sexual maturity attained at age 2; spawns June to October; feeds on crustaceans and fish
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