Redfish
{{about|the various species of fish}}
{{Wiktionary|redfish}}
Redfish is a common name for several species of fish.{{cite book | last=Beckman | first=D.W. | title=Marine Environmental Biology and Conservation | publisher=Jones & Bartlett Learning | series=G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series | year=2013 | isbn=978-0-7637-7350-2 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vW3pbgIcnXAC&pg=PA34 | access-date=June 30, 2021 | page=34}} It is most commonly applied to certain deep-sea rockfish in the genus Sebastes, red drum from the genus Sciaenops or the reef dwelling snappers in the genus Lutjanus. It is also applied to the slimeheads or roughies (family Trachichthyidae), and the alfonsinos (Berycidae).
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|Redfish, eastern nannygai |
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|Queen snapper |
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|Blackfin snapper |
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|Red snapper |
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|Crimson snapper |
|Lutjanus malabaricus
|Malabar blood snapper |
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|Southern red snapper |
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|Emperor red snapper |
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|Lane snapper |
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|Sockeye salmon |
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|Vermillion snapper |
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|Acadian redfish |
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|Red drum |
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|Deep-water redfish |
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|Ocean perch, rose fish |
|Sebastes viviparus
|Norway redfish |