Common bluestripe snapper, the Glossary

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1. 90 relations: Africa, Algae, Anatomical terms of location, Andaman Sea, Aquarium, Arabic, Australia, Carsten Niebuhr, Cave, Cephalopholis argus, Cephalopod, China, Commerce, Commercial fishing, Coral, Coral reef, Crab, Crustacean, Diet (nutrition), Dorsal fin, Ecological niche, Egg, Egypt, Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes, Exploration, Family (biology), Fauna, Finland, Fish, Fish as food, Fish fin, FishBase, Fishing, Game fish, Georges Cuvier, Gill raker, Gillnetting, Goatfish, Habitat, Handline fishing, Herbivore, India, Indian Ocean, Interspecific competition, Johan Christian Fabricius, Kiribati, Lagoon, Lateral line, Latitude, Laurens Theodorus Gronovius, ... Expand index (40 more) »

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Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.

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Algae

Algae (alga) are any of a large and diverse group of photosynthetic, eukaryotic organisms.

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Anatomical terms of location

Standard anatomical terms of location are used to unambiguously describe the anatomy of animals, including humans.

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Andaman Sea

The Andaman Sea (historically also known as the Burma Sea) is a marginal sea of the northeastern Indian Ocean bounded by the coastlines of Myanmar and Thailand along the Gulf of Martaban and the west side of the Malay Peninsula, and separated from the Bay of Bengal to its west by the Andaman Islands and the Nicobar Islands.

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Aquarium

An aquarium (aquariums or aquaria) is a vivarium of any size having at least one transparent side in which aquatic plants or animals are kept and displayed.

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Arabic

Arabic (اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ, or عَرَبِيّ, or) is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

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Carsten Niebuhr

Carsten Niebuhr, or Karsten Niebuhr (17 March 1733 Lüdingworth – 26 April 1815 Meldorf, Dithmarschen), was a German mathematician, cartographer, and explorer in the service of Denmark.

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Cave

A cave or cavern is a natural void under the Earth's surface.

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Cephalopholis argus

Cephalopholis argus, the peacock hind, roi, bluespotted grouper, and celestial grouper, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a member of the subfamily Epinephelinae, the groupers, and part of the family Serranidae, which also includes the anthias and sea basses.

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Cephalopod

A cephalopod is any member of the molluscan class Cephalopoda (Greek plural κεφαλόποδες,; "head-feet") such as a squid, octopus, cuttlefish, or nautilus.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.

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Commerce

Commerce is the large-scale organized system of activities, functions, procedures and institutions that directly or indirectly contribute to the smooth, unhindered distribution and transfer of goods and services on a substantial scale and at the right time, place, quantity, quality and price through various channels from the original producers to the final consumers within local, regional, national or international economies.

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Commercial fishing

Commercial fishing is the activity of catching fish and other seafood for commercial profit, mostly from wild fisheries.

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Coral

Corals are colonial marine invertebrates within the class Anthozoa of the phylum Cnidaria.

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Coral reef

A coral reef is an underwater ecosystem characterized by reef-building corals.

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Crab

Crabs are decapod crustaceans of the infraorder Brachyura, which typically have a very short projecting tail-like abdomen, usually hidden entirely under the thorax (brachyura means "short tail" in Greek).

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Crustacean

Crustaceans are a group of arthropods that are a part of the subphylum Crustacea, a large, diverse group of mainly aquatic arthropods including decapods (shrimps, prawns, crabs, lobsters and crayfish), seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, opossum shrimps, amphipods and mantis shrimp.

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Diet (nutrition)

In nutrition, diet is the sum of food consumed by a person or other organism.

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Dorsal fin

A dorsal fin is a fin located on the back of most marine and freshwater vertebrates within various taxa of the animal kingdom.

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Ecological niche

In ecology, a niche is the match of a species to a specific environmental condition.

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Egg

An egg is an organic vessel grown by an animal to carry a possibly fertilized egg cell (a zygote) and to incubate from it an embryo within the egg until the embryo has become an animal fetus that can survive on its own, at which point the animal hatches.

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Egypt

Egypt (مصر), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and the Sinai Peninsula in the southwest corner of Asia.

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Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes

Catalog of Fishes is a comprehensive on-line database and reference work on the scientific names of fish species and genera.

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Exploration

Exploration is the process of exploring, an activity which has some expectation of discovery.

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Family (biology)

Family (familia,: familiae) is one of the nine major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.

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Fauna

Fauna (faunae or faunas) is all of the animal life present in a particular region or time.

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Finland

Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe.

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Fish

A fish (fish or fishes) is an aquatic, anamniotic, gill-bearing vertebrate animal with swimming fins and a hard skull, but lacking limbs with digits.

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Fish as food

Many species of fish are caught by humans and consumed as food in virtually all regions around the world.

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Fish fin

Fins are moving appendages protruding from the body of fish that interact with water to generate thrust and help the fish swim.

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FishBase

FishBase is a global species database of fish species (specifically finfish).

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Fishing

Fishing is the activity of trying to catch fish.

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Game fish

Game fish, sport fish or quarry refer to popular fish species pursued by recreational fishers (typically anglers), and can be freshwater or saltwater fish.

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Georges Cuvier

Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric, Baron Cuvier (23 August 1769 – 13 May 1832), known as Georges Cuvier, was a French naturalist and zoologist, sometimes referred to as the "founding father of paleontology".

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Gill raker

Gill rakers in fish are bony or cartilaginous processes that project from the branchial arch (gill arch) and are involved with suspension feeding tiny prey.

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Gillnetting

Gillnetting is a fishing method that uses gillnets: vertical panels of netting that hang from a line with regularly spaced floaters that hold the line on the surface of the water.

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Goatfish

The goatfishes are fish of the family Mullidae, the only family in the order Mulliformes.

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Habitat

In ecology, habitat refers to the array of resources, physical and biotic factors that are present in an area, such as to support the survival and reproduction of a particular species.

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Handline fishing

Handline fishing, or handlining, is a fishing technique where a single fishing line is held in the hands, rather than with a fishing rod like the usual angling, of which handlining is a subtype.

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Herbivore

A herbivore is an animal anatomically and physiologically adapted to eating plant material, for example foliage or marine algae, for the main component of its diet.

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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Indian Ocean

The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or approx.

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Interspecific competition

Interspecific competition, in ecology, is a form of competition in which individuals of different species compete for the same resources in an ecosystem (e.g. food or living space).

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Johan Christian Fabricius

Johan Christian Fabricius (7 January 1745 – 3 March 1808) was a Danish zoologist, specialising in "Insecta", which at that time included all arthropods: insects, arachnids, crustaceans and others.

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Kiribati

Kiribati, officially the Republic of Kiribati (Ribaberiki Kiribati),.

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Lagoon

A lagoon is a shallow body of water separated from a larger body of water by a narrow landform, such as reefs, barrier islands, barrier peninsulas, or isthmuses.

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Lateral line

The lateral line, also called the lateral line organ (LLO), is a system of sensory organs found in fish, used to detect movement, vibration, and pressure gradients in the surrounding water.

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Latitude

In geography, latitude is a coordinate that specifies the north–south position of a point on the surface of the Earth or another celestial body.

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Laurens Theodorus Gronovius

Laurens Theodoor Gronovius (1 June 1730 – 8 August 1777), also known as Laurentius Theodorus Gronovius or as Laurens Theodoor Gronow, was a Dutch naturalist born in Leiden.

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List of islands in the Pacific Ocean

The Pacific islands are a group of islands in the Pacific Ocean.

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Lutjanidae

Lutjanidae, or snappers are a family of perciform fish, mainly marine, but with some members inhabiting estuaries, feeding in fresh water.

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Lutjanus

Lutjanus is a genus of marine ray-finned fish, snappers belonging to the family Lutjanidae.

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Madagascar

Madagascar, officially the Republic of Madagascar and the Fourth Republic of Madagascar, is an island country comprising the island of Madagascar and numerous smaller peripheral islands.

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Mantis shrimp

Mantis shrimp are carnivorous marine crustaceans of the order Stomatopoda.

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Marketing

Marketing is the act of satisfying and retaining customers.

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Marquesas Islands

The Marquesas Islands (Îles Marquises or Archipel des Marquises or Marquises; Marquesan: Te HenuaEnana (North Marquesan) and Te FenuaEnata (South Marquesan), both meaning "the land of men") are a group of volcanic islands in French Polynesia, an overseas collectivity of France in the southern Pacific Ocean.

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Mexico

Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America.

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Mimicry

In evolutionary biology, mimicry is an evolved resemblance between an organism and another object, often an organism of another species.

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Moʻorea

Rolfe is a synonym of the orchid genus Neomoorea. - this seems strange - the "Neo-" prefix is rarely used if the genus name without prefix is still available.

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Morphology (biology)

Morphology in biology is the study of the form and structure of organisms and their specific structural features.

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Mulloidichthys

Mulloidichthys is a genus of fish in the family Mullidae native to coral and rocky reefs of the tropical Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Ocean.

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Natural history

Natural history is a domain of inquiry involving organisms, including animals, fungi, and plants, in their natural environment, leaning more towards observational than experimental methods of study.

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Nematode

The nematodes (or; Νηματώδη; Nematoda), roundworms or eelworms constitute the phylum Nematoda.

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Ocean

The ocean is the body of salt water that covers approx.

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Operculum (fish)

The operculum is a series of bones found in bony fish and chimaeras that serves as a facial support structure and a protective covering for the gills; it is also used for respiration and feeding.

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Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions.

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Parasitism

Parasitism is a close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life.

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Peter Forsskål, sometimes spelled Pehr Forsskål, Peter Forskaol, Petrus Forskål or Pehr Forsskåhl (11 January 1732 – 11 July 1763) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish explorer, orientalist, naturalist, and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus.

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Pieter Bleeker

Pieter Bleeker (10 July 1819 – 24 January 1878) was a Dutch medical doctor, ichthyologist, and herpetologist.

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Plankton

Plankton are the diverse collection of organisms that drift in water (or air) but are unable to actively propel themselves against currents (or wind).

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Plant

Plants are the eukaryotes that form the kingdom Plantae; they are predominantly photosynthetic.

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Predation

Predation is a biological interaction where one organism, the predator, kills and eats another organism, its prey.

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Red Sea

The Red Sea is a sea inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia.

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René Lesson

René Primevère Lesson (20 March 1794 – 28 April 1849) was a French surgeon, naturalist, ornithologist, and herpetologist.

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Scale (zoology)

In zoology, a scale (lepís; squāma) is a small rigid plate that grows out of an animal's skin to provide protection.

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Seagrass

Seagrasses are the only flowering plants which grow in marine environments.

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Serranidae

Serranidae is a large family of fishes belonging to the order Perciformes.

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Sexual maturity

Sexual maturity is the capability of an organism to reproduce.

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Shipwreck

A shipwreck is the wreckage of a ship that is located either beached on land or sunken to the bottom of a body of water.

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Shoaling and schooling

In biology, any group of fish that stay together for social reasons are shoaling, and if the group is swimming in the same direction in a coordinated manner, they are schooling.

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Shrimp

A shrimp (shrimp (US) or shrimps (UK) is a crustacean (a form of shellfish) with an elongated body and a primarily swimming mode of locomotion – typically belonging to the Caridea or Dendrobranchiata of the order Decapoda, although some crustaceans outside of this order are also referred to as "shrimp".

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Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia is the geographical southeastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of China, east of the Indian subcontinent, and northwest of the Australian mainland, which is part of Oceania.

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Spawn (biology)

Spawn is the eggs and sperm released or deposited into water by aquatic animals.

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Spearfishing

Spearfishing is fishing using handheld elongated, sharp-pointed tools such as a spear, gig, or harpoon, to impale the fish in the body.

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Species

A species (species) is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction.

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Specific name (zoology)

In zoological nomenclature, the specific name (also specific epithet, species epithet, or epitheton) is the second part (the second name) within the scientific name of a species (a binomen).

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Swedish language

Swedish (svenska) is a North Germanic language from the Indo-European language family, spoken predominantly in Sweden and in parts of Finland.

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Territory of Hawaii

The Territory of Hawaii or Hawaii Territory (Hawaiian: Panalāʻau o Hawaiʻi) was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from April 30, 1900, until August 21, 1959, when most of its territory, excluding Palmyra Island, was admitted to the United States as the 50th U.S.

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Type (biology)

In biology, a type is a particular specimen (or in some cases a group of specimens) of an organism to which the scientific name of that organism is formally associated.

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See also

Lutjanus

• African brown snapper
• Bigeye snapper
• Blackfin snapper
• Blue and gold snapper
• Bluestriped snapper
• Brazilian snapper
• Common bluestripe snapper
• Cubera snapper
• Dog snapper
• Golden African snapper
• Gorean snapper
• Humpback red snapper
• Lane snapper
• Lutjanus
• Lutjanus adetii
• Lutjanus agennes
• Lutjanus biguttatus
• Lutjanus bohar
• Lutjanus carponotatus
• Lutjanus decussatus
• Lutjanus endecacanthus
• Lutjanus erythropterus
• Lutjanus fulviflamma
• Lutjanus fulvus
• Lutjanus goldiei
• Lutjanus indicus
• Lutjanus johnii
• Lutjanus lemniscatus
• Lutjanus madras
• Lutjanus malabaricus
• Lutjanus monostigma
• Lutjanus novemfasciatus
• Lutjanus purpureus
• Lutjanus quinquelineatus
• Lutjanus rivulatus
• Lutjanus russellii
• Lutjanus sebae
• Lutjanus vitta
• Mangrove red snapper
• Mangrove snapper
• Mutton snapper
• Northern red snapper
• Pygmy snapper
• Schoolmaster snapper
• Silk snapper

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_bluestripe_snapper

Also known as Blue striped snapper, Bluestripe Snapper, Diacope octolineata, Lutjanus kasmira, Mesoprion etaape, Mesoprion pomacanthus, Sciaena kasmira.

, List of islands in the Pacific Ocean, Lutjanidae, Lutjanus, Madagascar, Mantis shrimp, Marketing, Marquesas Islands, Mexico, Mimicry, Moʻorea, Morphology (biology), Mulloidichthys, Natural history, Nematode, Ocean, Operculum (fish), Pacific Ocean, Parasitism, Peter Forsskål, Pieter Bleeker, Plankton, Plant, Predation, Red Sea, René Lesson, Scale (zoology), Seagrass, Serranidae, Sexual maturity, Shipwreck, Shoaling and schooling, Shrimp, Southeast Asia, Spawn (biology), Spearfishing, Species, Specific name (zoology), Swedish language, Territory of Hawaii, Type (biology).