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MANGROVE JACK FACTS |
Description
Head and body brick-red, to greyish brown. Enlarged canine teeth at front of jaws. Scale rows above lateral-line horizontal initially, but usually slanting upward behind last few dorsal-fin spines. No conspicuous groove between nostrils and eye; no black spot on sides.
Juveniles occur in freshwater and mangrove-lined estuaries. Males mature at about 47 cm and females at about 53 cm. Mature fish migrate offshore to spawn in spring-summer. Feeds mainly on fishes and prawns.
Author credit: Jeff Johnson / Queensland Museum
Habitat
Coastal to offshore coral and rocky reefs; estuaries; juveniles penetrate well into freshwater.
Food
Carnivore
Range
Shark Bay, WA to Lake Illawarra, NSW; tropical Indo-west Pacific.
Species Description is from Museums Field Guide, Atlas of Living Australia at website at https://lists.ala.org.au Licensed under Creative Commons Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Classification
| Class: | Actinopterygii | | Order: | Perciformes | | Family: | Lutjanidae | | Genus: | Lutjanus | | Species: | argentimaculatus | | Common Name: | Mangrove Jack |
Relatives in same Genus
Hussar (L. adetti)
Twospot Snapper (L. biguttatus)
Red Bass (L. bohar)
Bluestripe Seaperch (L. kasmira)
Bigeye Snapper (L. lutjanus)
Red Emperor (L. sebae)
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