Giant Ruby Snapper, Etelis boweni Andrews, Fernandez‐Silva, Randall & Ho 2021
Other Names: Bowen's Red Snapper, Bowen's Snapper
Giant Ruby Snapper, Etelis boweni. Source: CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere. License: CC by Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Summary:
A large orange-red tropical snapper becoming silvery-white below, with a black tip on the upper caudal-fin lobe. The species has a robust head, a steep dorsal profile, a slightly protruding lower jaw, and an indistinct, rounded opercular spine that is fully covered by skin.
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Bray, D.J. 2024, Etelis boweni in Fishes of Australia, accessed 19 Jan 2025, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/Home/species/5586
Giant Ruby Snapper, Etelis boweni Andrews, Fernandez‐Silva, Randall & Ho 2021
More Info
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Distribution |
Southwest Western Australia to off the Dampier Peninsula; also Christmas Island in the Eastern Indian Ocean. Elsewhere the species occurs in the Indo-West Pacific: Red Sea to Western Australia and to Samoa. |
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Features |
Gill rakers 11-12. |
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Size |
Maximum size exceeding 150 cm TL. |
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Similar Species |
Etelis boweni differs from the similar E. carbunculus, in adult body length, the proportions of the eye, snout, cheek and caudal fin, the shape of the head, opercular spine and sagittal otolith, and in the coloration of the tip of the upper caudal fin lobe. The two species have overlapping distributions, and are often caught together. |
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Etymology |
The authors are grateful to name this fish after Dr. Brian W. Bowen of the Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawaiʻi, in recognition of his contributions to the field of Ichthyology, and in particular for his use of molecular genetic techniques in support of the taxonomy of fishes. |
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Species Citation |
Etelis boweni Andrews, Fernandez-Silva, Randall & Ho 2021, Journal of Fish Biology 99(2): 337, Figs. 1-3a, 4a, c, e, 5a. Type locality: Off Yanbu, al-Madinah, Red Sea, Saudi Arabia, circa 24°03'33.0"N, 38°02'41.6"E. |
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Author |
Bray, D.J. 2024 |
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Resources |
Giant Ruby Snapper, Etelis boweni Andrews, Fernandez‐Silva, Randall & Ho 2021
References
Andrews, K.R., Copus, J.M., Wilcox, C., Williams, A.J., et al. 2020. Range-wide population structure of 3 deepwater Eteline snappers across the Indo-Pacific Basin. Journal of Heredity 111(5): 471–485, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esaa029
Andrews, K.R., Fernandez‐Silva, I., Randall, J.E. & Ho, H.‐C. 2021. Etelis boweni sp. nov., a new cryptic deepwater Eteline snapper from Indo‐Pacific (Perciformes: Lutjanidae). Journal of Fish Biology 99(2): 335-344. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.14720
Andrews, K.R., Williams, A.J., Fernandez-Silva, I., Newman, S.J., Copus, J.M., Wakefield, C.B., Randall, J.E., Bowen, B.W. 2016. Phylogeny of deepwater snappers (genus Etelis) reveals a cryptic species pair in the Indo-Pacific and Pleistocene invasion of the Atlantic. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 100: 361-371, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2016.04.004
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Sih, T.L., Williams, A.J., Hu, Y. & Kingsford, M.J. 2022. High-resolution otolith elemental signatures in eteline snappers from valuable deepwater tropical fisheries. Journal of Fish Biology 100(6): 1475–1496. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.15059
Wakefield, C.B., Williams, A.J., Fisher, E.A., Hall, N.G., et al. 2020. Variations in life history characteristics of the deep-water giant ruby snapper (Etelis sp.) between the Indian and Pacific Oceans and application of a data-poor assessment. Fisheries Research 230: 105651,
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Wakefield, C.B., Williams, A.J., Newman, S.J., Bunel, M., et al. 2014. Rapid and reliable multivariate discrimination for two cryptic eteline snappers using otolith morphometry, Fisheries Research 151: 100-106, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2013.10.011
