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Pink Snapper

Reference

IB3406

Category

Fishes

Family Name

Breams - SPARIDAE

Common Name

Pink Snapper

Scientific Name

Pagrus auratus

Artist Name

Roger Swainston

Notes

The Snapper can reach up to 1.3 m in length and is found, often in large schools, over reefs and rocky bottoms around the southern two-thirds of Australia, down to at least 100 m. Large adults develop a hump on the forehead and sometimes a large lump on the snout.

Source : Swainston’s Fishes of Australia

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