The Northern Red Snapper is a rosy-red reef fish with a sloping head and red eyes. A long-lived, prized food fish, it gathers over rocky bottoms and artificial reefs.
Habitat
Reefs and rocky bottoms of the Gulf of Mexico and western Atlantic
Diet
Fish, shrimp, crabs, and cephalopods
How common
Uncommon
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