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Deepwater longtail red snapper
Etelis coruscans
Valid name (FishBase; confirmed in Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes and WoRMS, October 2026).
- English
- Deepwater longtail red snapper
- Scientific
- Etelis coruscans
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Family
- Lutjanidae (snappers)
- Maximum size
- Up to about 1.2 m (total length); commonly 50 cm
- Depth and habitat
- Coral reefs and reef-associated habitats, recorded from 45 to 400 m (usually 90 to 400 m)
- IUCN status
- LC · Least ConcernLeast Concern (LC), assessed 2015
Description
A bright pink to red deep-water snapper with large eyes and a deeply forked tail whose upper lobe grows into a long streamer in adults. It lives over rocky bottoms on deep slopes, mostly at 90 to 400 m, and feeds on small fish, squid and crustaceans. It is one of the most valued deep-water snappers for its flesh.
In the Maldives
Taken on deep handlines in the Maldivian reef-fish fishery.
Sources
- fishbase.se /summary/Etelis-coruscans.html
- commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:Fis01167_(28136581836).jpg
Dhivehi name source: No Dhivehi name found in MRS 1997 (available chapters), FishBase (country: Maldives) or Dhivehi Wikipedia.