Talk:Snapper

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[edit] Australasian snappers

Removed the foll from the article. A key work on the foll topic is Paulin, Chris D. "Pagrus auratus, a new combination for the species known as "snapper" in Australasian waters (Pisces: Sparidae)" in New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 1990, Vol. 24:259-265, http://www.rsnz.org/publish/nzjmfr/1990/26.php. The delicious Pagrus auratus deserves its own article one day. BTW they've been recorded at 66 years old (determined from the otolith).

In New Zealand waters, there are two fishes commonly known as Snapper, neither of them members of the family Lutjanidae. Because of a misidentification, they were originally thought to be the same species. One is the Gilthead Seabream, Sparus aurata, the other the Squirefish Chrysophrys auratus. Both are members of the family Sparidae of porgies and sea breams. The Squirefish was named "snapper" by Captain James Cook, and placed in the wrasse genus Labrus by J. R. Forster in work published in 1801. The name snapper (also Cockney Snapper, Golden Snapper, Old Man Snapper, or Pink Snapper) is also used for it in Australia. The Gilthead Seabream has, for many centuries, been called Tamure by the indigenous Maori.

Nurg 09:16, 20 May 2005 (UTC)