Vermilion snapper

Vermilion Snapper
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Perciformes
Family:	Lutjanidae
Genus:	Rhomboplites
Species:	R. aurorubens
Binomial name
Rhomboplites aurorubens (Cuvier, 1829)

The vermilion snapper (Rhomboplites aurorubens), is an abundant species of fish found along the North American coast of the Atlantic Ocean from North Carolina to Bermuda and throughout the Gulf of Mexico to Brazil. The vermilion snapper is often sold as red snapper.^[1]

Local names for the fish include the Beeline snapper, B-Liner, California Red Snapper, Mingo, Mutton Snapper^[2]

References

1. ^ http://www.chow.com/ingredients/537 accessed 2007-10-2
2. ^ http://www.st.nmfs.gov/st1/recreational/documents/local%20fish%20names/local%20names%20atl%20gulf.txt accessed 2007-10-2

External links

• Species Fact Sheet, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
• Vermilion Snapper (Rhomboplites aurorubens), Panama Citiy Laboratory, U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service
• Genetic Stock Structure of Vermilion Snapper, Report to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, July, 2005
• Vermilion Snapper (Rhomboplites aurorubens), Texas Parks and Wildlife

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