Etelis boweni, Giant ruby snapper

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Etelis boweni Andrews, Fernandez-Silva, Randall & Ho, 2021

Giant ruby snapper
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Teleostei (teleosts) > Eupercaria/misc (Various families in series Eupercaria) > Lutjanidae (Snappers) > Etelinae
Etymology: Etelis: Greek, etelis, -idos = a fish, perhaps the fish Sparus aurata (Ref. 45335); boweni: Named for Dr. Brian W. Bowen, Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawaiʻi,.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Marine; demersal; depth range 209 - 319 m (Ref. 123743). Tropical

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Indo-Pacific: Red Sea, western Saudi Arabia, Western Australia (Ningaloo Reef and Montebello, Seychelles, Christmas Island, New Caledonia, Wallis and Futuna, Fiji, Tonga and Samoa.Islands.

Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 57.1 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 123743)

Short description Identification keys | Morphology | Morphometrics

Dorsal spines (total): 10; Dorsal soft rays (total): 11; Anal spines: 3; Anal soft rays: 8; Vertebrae: 24. This species is distinguished by the following characters: with an indistinct opercular spine which is fully covered by skin; black tip of upper lobe of caudal fin; steep and long snout, 10.8%-12.1% SL; eye small 7.8%-10.1% SL; cheek deep 5.2% SL; otolith relatively slender and complicated; caudal fin relatively long 29.2%-31.5% SL; deep fin concavity 18.9%-19.7% SL; strong genetic divergence at mitochondrial markers (cytb and COI); it has a much larger body size with fork length exceeding 115.0 cm FL (Ref. 123743).
Cross section: compressed.

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Reported catch from the East Bank, American Samoa in 2016, weighed 31 kg and total length >1 m (Ref. 123743).

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Andrews, K.R., I. Fernandez-Silva, J.E. Randall and H.C. Ho, 2021. Etelis boweni sp. nov., a new cryptic deepwater Eteline snapper from Indo-Pacific (Perciformes: Lutjanidae). J. Fish Biol. 99(2):335-344. (Ref. 123743)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-1)

Not Evaluated 

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





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AFORO (otoliths) | Aquatic Commons | BHL | Cloffa | Websites from users | Check FishWatcher | CISTI | Catalog of Fishes: genus, species | DiscoverLife | ECOTOX | FAO - Publication: search | Faunafri | Fishipedia | Fishtrace | GloBI | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | IGFA World Record | OneZoom | Open Tree of Life | Otolith Atlas of Taiwan Fishes | PubMed | Reef Life Survey | Socotra Atlas | TreeBase | Tree of Life | Wikipedia: Go, Search | World Records Freshwater Fishing | Zoobank | Zoological Record

Estimates based on models

Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804):  PD50 = 0.5312   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Trophic level (Ref. 69278):  4.2   ±0.5 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives
Resilience (Ref. 120179):  Medium, minimum population doubling time 1.4 - 4.4 years (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153):  Moderate to high vulnerability (48 of 100). 🛈