#2279 · 🐟 fish
Gray Snapper
🇳🇱 Grijze zeebaars ·Lutjanus griseus
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Frank Krasovec · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © François Libert · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Frank Krasovec · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © LASZLO ILYES · CC BY 4.0
- 5. © Pauline Walsh Jacobson · CC BY 4.0
- 6. © shmavin · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © Quinn · CC BY 4.0
- 8. © shmavin · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © Pauline Walsh Jacobson · CC BY 4.0
- 10. © Emilio Concari · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The mangrove snapper or gray snapper ( Lutjanus griseus ) is a species of snapper native to the western Atlantic Ocean from Massachusetts to Brazil, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean Sea. They can be found in a wide variety of habitats, including brackish and fresh waters. It is commercially important, as well as being sought as a game fish. It can also be found in the aquarium trade.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 7,031 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Gray Snapper
- Nederlands
- Grijze zeebaars
- scientific name
- Lutjanus griseus
- class
- Actinopterygii
- order
- Acanthuriformes
- family
- Lutjanidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 7,031
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Lutjanidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 49509, Wikidata Q2717632, GBIF 2384986, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.