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John's snapper (Lutjanus johnii) Coius catus
Date 1822
Source An account of the fishes found in the river Ganges and its branches . Plate 38, Figure 30 - labelled Coius catus in original
Author Francis Hamilton
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AHamilton_38_%28cropped%29.jpg
Lutjanus johnii, John's snapper, the golden snapper, big-scaled bream, fingermark bream, fingermark seaperch, John's sea-perch, or spotted-scale sea perch, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a snapper belonging to the family Lutjanidae. It is native to the western Pacific and Indian Oceans.
Order: Perciformes
Family: Lutjanidae
Genus: Lutjanus
Species: Lutjanus johnii (Bloch, 1792)
Synonyms
Anthias johnii Bloch, 1792
Sparus tranquebaricus Shaw, 1803
Coius catus Hamilton, 1822
Mesoprion yapilli Cuvier, 1828
Diacope xanthozona Kuhl, 1828
Serranus pavoninus Valenciennes, 1831
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