Lutjanus


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Noun1.Lutjanus - type genus of the Lutjanidae: snappersLutjanus - type genus of the Lutjanidae: snappers
fish genus - any of various genus of fish
Lutjanus blackfordi, red snapper - an esteemed food fish with pinkish red head and body; common in the Atlantic coastal waters of North America and the Gulf of Mexico
gray snapper, grey snapper, Lutjanus griseus, mangrove snapper - found in shallow waters off the coast of Florida
Lutjanus apodus, schoolmaster - food fish of warm Caribbean and Atlantic waters
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Changes in proximate analysis (protein and lipid), lipid classes, and fatty acid composition were monitored during early development of red snapper Lutjanus campechanus.
and Euthynnus alletteratus), amberjacks (Seriola rivoliana and other Seriola species), barracuda (Sphyraena barracuda), snappers (Lutjanus vivanus and L.
2 como las especies que generalmente habitan aguas oceanicas se encuentran cercanas a valores de alta salinidad como es el caso del pargo manchado (Lutjanus guttatus), y el pargo negro (Lutjanus novemfasciatus) mientras que especies que pueden tolerar rangos inferiores se encuentran ubicadas en el extremo opuesto como el caso del robalo (Centropomus nigrescens) y la sardinita (Anchoa spinifer) (Fig., 2).
This group included grunts (Haemulon spp.), except for the striped grunt; snapper (Lutjanus spp.); grouper (Mycteroperca spp., Epinephelus spp., and the graysby, Cephalopholis cruentata), except for the red grouper; triggerfish (Batistes spp.); and the hogfish (Lachnolaimus maximus).
Effect of ration size and feeding frequency on growth, feed utilization, body composition and some haematological characteristics of juvenile snapper, Lutjanus johnii (Baloch, 1792).
Currently it is estimated that more than 200 species with experimentally determined cryoconservation protocols only 40 protocols are from marine species (Thirumala et al., 2006), and in Brazil had only four marine species protocols for sperm cryoconservation determined: Brazilian flounder Paralichthys orbignyanus (Valenciennes, 1839) (Lanes et al., 2008), fat snook Centropomus parallelus (Poey, 1860) (Tiba et al., 2009), dusky grouper Epinephelus marginatus (Lowe, 1834) (Sanches et al., 2009), and mutton snapper Lutjanus analis (Cuvier, 1828) (Sanches et al., 2013).
Within the Chordata family, different life stages were seen for the sheepshead Archosargus probatocephalus (length 4.4-9.7 cm, biomass 8.5-19.8 g), pinfish Lagodon rhomboides (length 2.3-7.7 cm, biomass 0.1-8.3), gray snapper Lutjanus griseus (length 3.0-11.2 cm, biomass 0.6-21.3 g), oyster toadfish Opsanus tau (length 2.3-9.0 cm; biomass 0.2-13.3 g), and numerous killifish and goby species (Table 5).
Veinticinco especies son frecuentes y con alta abundancia en los sitios de muestreo, entre los que resaltan varias especies de importancia comercial, como el pargo manchado Lutjanus guttatus y el pargo cola amarilla Lutjanus argentriventris.
[beta]-glucans (1,3/1,6) have been widely used to stimulate innate immune response, and to improve parameters like phagocyte activity, respiratory burst activity, nitric oxide, complement and lysozyme activity, as well as to increase the number of leukocytes (Ringo et al., 2011; Bridle et al., 2005) on salt and freshwater fish, such as Atlantic salmon Salmo salar (Bridle et al., 2005); rose snapper Lutjanus guttatus (Del Rio-Zaragoza et al., 2011); sea bass Dicentrarchus labrax (Bonaldo et al., 2009); grass carp Ctenopharyngodon idella (Kim et al., 2009); rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss (Jaafar et al., 2011) and Nile tilapia Oreochromis niloticus (Cain et al., 2003).
The optimal protein requirements of juvenile mangrove redsnapper, Lutjanus argentimaculatus fed isoenergeticdiets.