Ehrenberg's snapper
Lutjanus ehrenbergii
Category: Reef Fish
IUCN Conservation Status: LC - Least Concern - species is widespread and abundant, not currently at risk of extinction
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Teleostei
- Order
- Eupercaria incertae sedis
- Family
- Lutjanidae
- Genus
- Lutjanus
Where to Find
Found in 30 diving areas across 21 countries and 4 regions.
- Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands - 1 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 1 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 26 records
- Rock Islands, Palau - 36 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 3 records
- Rabaul & New Britain, Papua New Guinea - 16 records
- Gizo & Western Province, Solomon Islands - 35 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 7 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 13 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 1 records
- Grande Comore, Comoros - 3 records
- Moheli, Comoros - 3 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 6 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 6 records
- Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique - 3 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 76 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 3 records
- Trincomalee & East Coast, Sri Lanka - 3 records
- Mafia Island, Tanzania - 1 records
- Zanzibar & Pemba, Tanzania - 5 records
- Gulf of Tadjoura, Djibouti - 6 records
- Deep South, Egypt - 1 records
- Eilat, Israel - 1 records
- Derawan Islands, Indonesia - 1 records
- Sumatra, Indonesia - 2 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 5 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 1 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 4 records
- Atauro Island, Timor-Leste - 5 records
- Dili Coast, Timor-Leste - 5 records