Red Snapper
Rhomboplites aurorubens
Category: Reef Fish
IUCN Conservation Status: VU - Vulnerable - facing a high risk of extinction in the wild
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Teleostei
- Order
- Eupercaria incertae sedis
- Family
- Lutjanidae
- Genus
- Rhomboplites
Where to Find
Found in 27 diving areas across 19 countries and 4 regions.
- Sandy Island, Anguilla - 1 records
- Aruba Leeward Coast, Aruba - 1 records
- Bimini, Bahamas - 2 records
- South Coast, Barbados - 3 records
- West Coast, Barbados - 3 records
- Salt Island & Cooper Island, British Virgin Islands - 1 records
- Virgin Gorda & Anegada, British Virgin Islands - 1 records
- Jardines de la Reina, Cuba - 1 records
- Curaçao Southeast, Curaçao - 1 records
- Bayahibe & La Romana, Dominican Republic - 2 records
- Sosua & Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic - 2 records
- Carriacou, Grenada - 1 records
- Southwest Coast, Grenada - 1 records
- Diamond Rock, Martinique - 2 records
- Saint-Pierre, Martinique - 2 records
- Fajardo & East Coast, Puerto Rico - 8 records
- La Parguera, Puerto Rico - 1 records
- Rincon & West Coast, Puerto Rico - 1 records
- St. Kitts, St. Kitts & Nevis - 2 records
- Tobago, Trinidad & Tobago - 12 records
- St. Thomas & St. John, US Virgin Islands - 2 records
- Caribbean Coast, Guatemala - 2 records
- Corn Islands, Nicaragua - 2 records
- Florida Springs, United States - 17 records
- Santa Marta & Tayrona, Colombia - 20 records
- Los Roques Archipelago, Venezuela - 1 records
- Morrocoy & Chichiriviche, Venezuela - 8 records