Lutjanus vitta, Quoy and Gaimard 1824
Not evaluated
Harmless to human.
From Talwar and Kacker (1984) and Allen (1985)
A small snapper with dorsal profile of head moderately sloped. Preorbital width about equal to eye diameter. Eye diameter about 1.2 times in snout length. Preopercular notch and knob poorly developed. Vomerine tooth patch triangular with a medial posterior extension or diamond-shaped. Teeth small, in narrow bands in jaws, with outer series of distant caninoids or canines. Tongue with a patch of granular teeth; gill rakers on lower limb of first arch (including rudiments) 9 to 12, total rakers on first arch 15 to 19. Scale rows on back rising obliquely above lateral line. Scales on head beginning above middle of eyes, soft part of dorsal and anal fins with a scaly sheath.
Li and Chu-Wu (2007) studied the taxonomic relationship of five species of snappers from Chinese marine water with RAPD and Simple sequence Repeats (SSR) techniques. They concluded that the genetic diversities in terms of polymorphic loci ratio (P), mean intraspecies genetic distances (D) and intraspecies genetic diversity indexes (Hi) were richest in L. vitta. This study also reveled that L. vitta, L. fulviflamma and L. fulvus are more closely related to each other.
Color of upper part of body pale reddish yallow, with numerous oblique dark lines following scale rows. Lower part of body silvery, with horizontal light brown lines. A distinct broad black band from eye along sides of body to upper base of caudal fin. fins are yellowish. Dorsal fin with 10 spines and 12 or 13 soft rays. Anal fin with 3 spines and 8 or 9 soft rays. Pectoral fins with 15 or 16 rays. Caudal fin slightly emarginate or truncate.
Max size recorded was 40 cm while commonly occurs in 35 cm of length.
Indo-West Pacific: Seychelles, then southern India to New Caledonia and Gilbert Islands, extending northward to the Ryukyu Islands
Inhabits the vicinity of coral reefs, also areas with flat bottoms and occasional low coral outcrops, sponges, and sea whips at depth of 10 to 40 meters. Occurs singly or in groups of up to about 30 individuals.
Max 12 years.
L. vitta spawn at various times throughout the day, including dusk, more likely in response to the timing of the tides (Sadovy, 1996).
Used in frsh and frozen condition. Used as a marine aquarium fish. Potential source of extraction of skin gelatin ( Jongjareonrak et al. 2006). Used for surimi production.Trypsin from the pyloric caeca of L. vitta was purified and characterized (Khantaphant and Benjakul 2009). Collagens from the skin of Brownstripe red snapper (Jongjareonrak et al., 2005)
English: Brownstrip red snapper
Serranus vitta Quoy & Gaimard, 1824, Voy.Uranie Zool.:58 (Waigiu)
From Talwar and Kacker, 1984
Longitudinal rows of scales above lateral line appear to rise obliquely to dorsal profile, those in front of and below anterior part of spinous dorsal fin sometimes parallel to lateral line.....
Scales on head beginning above middle of eyes or nearly so, temporal region scaly......
Preopercular notch slightly developed, vomerine teeth in a triangular or arrow shaped patch.....
Dorsal fin with 10 spines (rarely 9 or 11), 6 or more rows of scales between lateral line and medium dorsal spines.....
A dark lateral band from eye to caudal fin, 6 or 7 rows of scales between lateral line and medium dorsal spines.......
Small fish, benthic crusteceans mainly juvenile crabs, shrimps.
Commercialy not taken in large quantities, but it forms a cosiderable proportion of the snapper fishery in Indian region. Caught mainly with handlines, traps and bottom trawls, bottom set gill nets.
Serranus vittta Quoy & Gaimard, 1824
Lutjanus vitta Steindachner and Doderlein, 1883
Serranus vitta Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1830
Mesoprion vitta Nystrom, 1887
Serranus vitta Richardson, 1845
Mesoprion enneacanthus Perugia, 1889
Diacope vitta Temminck and Schlegel, 1850
Lutianus vitta Rutter, 1897
Mesoprion phaiotaenia Bleeker, 1852
Lutianus vitta Jordan and Seale, 1907
Mesoprion vitta Gunther, 1859
Lutianus vitta Seale and Bean, 1908
Lutjanus vitta Bleeker, 1863
Lutianus vitta Seale, 1910
Mesoprion enneacanthus Kner, 1865
Lutianus vitta Jordan and Thompson, 1911
Mesoprion vitta Playfair, 1866
Lutianus vitta Jordan, Tanaka and Snyder, 1913
Lutjanus vitta Bleeker, 1873
Lutianus vitta Jordan and Starks, 1917
Lutjanus vitta Day, 1888
Lutjanus vitta Fowler and Bean, 1922
Lutjanus vitta Bleeker, 1877
Lutjanus vitta Steindachner and Doderlein, 1883
Mesoprion vitta Macleay, 1882
Lutjanus vitta Fowler, 1931