Vermilion snapper
| Vermilion snapper | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Acanthuriformes |
| Family: | Lutjanidae |
| Genus: | Rhomboplites T. N. Gill, 1862 |
| Species: | R. aurorubens |
| Binomial name | |
| Rhomboplites aurorubens (G. Cuvier, 1829) | |
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The vermilion snapper (Rhomboplites aurorubens), the clubhead snapper, night snapper or beeliner is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a snapper belonging to the family Lutjanidae. It is native to the western Atlantic Ocean.