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Species Name:    Lutjanus apodus
Common Name:          (Schoolmaster)

 

I.  TAXONOMY

Kingdom Phylum/Division: Class: Order: Family: Genus:
Animalia Chordata Osteichthyes Perciformes Lutjanidae Lutjanus


The Schoolmaster, Lutjanus apodus.  Illustration by Diana Rome Peebles 1998.  Courtesy of Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Division of Marine Fisheries.
Species Name:
Lutjanus apodus (Walbaum in Artedi, 1792)
Common Name:
Schoolmaster;  schoolmaster snapper