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Profile updated on 13 September 2023

SUMMARY

IDENTIFICATION

SCIENTIFIC NAME(s)

Lutjanus malabaricus

SPECIES NAME(s)

Malabar blood snapper, Saddletail snapper, red snapper

COMMON NAMES

Saddletail snapper

Malabar blood snapper (usually namely as saddletail snapper in Australia) is widely distributed throughout the Indo-West Pacific region. Scientific studies identified several discrete biological stocks in Australia: North Coast Bioregion, Joseph Bonaparte Gulf, Timor and Arafura Seas, Gulf of Carpentaria and East Coast Queensland, (this profile) (Fisheries Research and Development Corporation 2023).