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> Eupercaria/misc (Various families in series Eupercaria) > Lutjanidae (Snappers) > Lutjaninae
Etymology: Lutjanus:Malay, ikan lutjan, name of a fish; arakan:Named after the historical Arakan coast along the eastern Bay of Bengal, where it is currently known; noun in apposition.
Taxonomic Remarks Previously misidentified as Lutjanus lemniscatus (non Valenciennes, 1828) and Lutjanus guilcheri (non Fourmanoir, 1959).
မိ်ဳးပြားရန္အရြယ္ေရာက္ျပီ: Lm? range ? - ? cm Max length : 36.0 cm SL အထီး/လိြင္ခြဲျခားျခင္းမျပဳနုိင္ေသာ; (Ref. 138536); အမ်ားဆံုး ပံုနွိပ္ထုတ္ေ၀ထားေသာ အေလးခ်ိန္: 1.5 kg (Ref. 138536)
ေက်ာဆူးေတာင္ (စုစုေပါင္း) : 10; ေက်ာဘက္တြင္ရွိေသာ ေရယက္၌ပါေသာ အမွ်င္မ်ား (စုစုေပါင္း) : 13 - 14; စအိုတြင္ရွိေသာဆူးေတာင္မ်ား: 3; စအိုနားတြင္ရွိျပီး နူးညံ့ေသာေရယက္အမွ်င္မ်ား: 8. This species is distinguished by the following set of characters: D X, 14 (13-14); A III, 8; body depth 2.4-2.8 in SL; eye 3.7-4.8 in HL; interorbital 5.6-7.4 in HL; scale rows above lateral line rising obliquely toward dorsal profile; predorsal scales extend forward to middle of interorbital; preopercular notch and interopercular knob are weakly developed; vomer with narrow, crescentic, V-shaped patch of granular teeth without a medial posterior extension; caudal fin slightly emarginate. Colouration when fresh or in life reddish brown, grey-brown, or olive-brown on head, back, and upper sides; the lower sides and belly reddish brown or silvery pink in adults and brownish white in juveniles; dorsal, caudal, anal, and pelvic fins are reddish brown, with a black spot at base of uppermost pectoral-fin rays; two dark-brown stripes on the upper half of lateral body, first from upper end of operculum to posterior end of soft-dorsal-fin base, continuing to upper caudal-fin base and the second stripe from behind upper middle operculum straight to mid-base of caudal fin, preceded by a squarish dark blotch on upper operculum (Ref. 138536). Body shape (shape guide): fusiform / normal; Cross section: compressed.
Inhabits coral-associated rocky reefs, mostly at about 3-20 m depth from where it is mostly fished. Juveniles often found in shallower waters, in less than 5 m. It is not known to occur in estuarine areas or in soft bottom trawling grounds. This species is the most frequently caught snapper (lutjanid), regularly seen in hand-line catches and occasionally in bottom-set gill net catches around Zinjira Island, Bangladesh. Associated species in catches are Lutjanus indicus, L. johnii, L. lunulatus, Lethrinus sp., Paranibea semiluctuosa, and Pomadasys guoraca, among others (Ref. 138536).
Hasan, M.E., J.-D. Durand and Y. Iwatsuki, 2025. Lutjanus arakan, a new species of snapper (Teleostei:
Lutjanidae) from the Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh, previously confused with L. lemniscatus. J. Ocean Sci. Found., 45:7-35. (Ref. 138536)
စိုးရိမ္ဖြယ္အေျခအေနသို႔ေရာက္ရွိေန ေသာမ်ိဳးသုဥ္းရွားပါးေတာ့မည့္မ်ိဳးစိတ္မ်ား၏အဆင့္အတန္း (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2 (Global))
