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Oblique-banded snapper
Pristipomoides zonatus
Valid name (FishBase; confirmed in Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes and WoRMS, October 2026).
- English
- Oblique-banded snapper
- Scientific
- Pristipomoides zonatus
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Family
- Lutjanidae (snappers)
- Maximum size
- Up to about 58 cm (fork length); commonly 35 cm; max. published weight 1.8 kg
- Depth and habitat
- Near the bottom and in the water column above it, recorded from 70 to 300 m (usually 125 to 275 m)
- IUCN status
- LC · Least ConcernLeast Concern (LC), assessed 2015
Description
A pink to reddish deep-water snapper with four slanting orange to yellow bars on the sides and yellow dorsal and tail fins, reaching about 58 cm. It lives over rocky bottoms on the shelf and slope, usually at 125 to 275 m.
Sources
- fishbase.se /summary/Pristipomoides-zonatus.html
- commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:Colas_bagnard_(Pristipomoides_zonatus)_(Ifremer_00536-64791
Dhivehi name source: No Dhivehi name found in MRS 1997 (available chapters), FishBase (country: Maldives) or Dhivehi Wikipedia.