Lutjanus jordani

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Population

Habitat and Ecology

Threats

Conservation Actions

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	ACTINOPTERYGII	PERCIFORMES	LUTJANIDAE

Scientific Name:

Lutjanus jordani

Species Authority:

(Gilbert, 1898)

Common Name/s:

English	–	Red snapper, Rufous snapper, Whipper snapper
French	–	Vivaneau huachinango
Spanish	–	Huachinango, Pargo, Pargo colmillón, Pargo colorado, Pargo de Jordan, Pargo de seda, Pargo rojo, Pargo seda, Parvo rojo, Saltador, Saltona

Synonym/s:

Neomaensis jordani Gilbert, 1898

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:	Least Concern ver 3.1
Year Published:	2010
Assessor/s:	Rojas, P., Cotto, A., Acero, A. & Bessudo, S.
Reviewer/s:	Carpenter, K., Polidoro, B. & Livingstone, S. (Global Marine Species Assessment Team)
Contributor/s:
Justification: This species is widespread in the Eastern Pacific, and is locally abundant in many parts of its range. There are no major threats for this species, and no current indication of widespread population decline. It is listed as Least Concern.

Geographic Range [top]

Range Description:	This species is endemic to the Eastern Pacific, and is found from southern Mexico to Peru, including the Mapelo, Cocos and Galapagos Islands.
Countries:	Native: Colombia; Costa Rica; Ecuador; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Mexico; Nicaragua; Panama; Peru
FAO Marine Fishing Areas:	Native: Pacific – eastern central; Pacific – southeast
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Population [top]

Population:	This species is common in some parts of its range, such as in Malpelo, Colombia where it is often present in extremely large groups. However, it is considered to be uncommon in continental Colombia and Nicaragua, and rare in Ecuador and in Panama reefs.
Population Trend:	Unknown

Habitat and Ecology [top]

Habitat and Ecology:	This reef-associated species inhabits inshore areas, including shallow mangrove-lined embayments and also occurs on deeper offshore trawling grounds to depths of 200m. This species forms schools in surface waters around Cocos Island, Costa Rica (Allen, 1995) and Malpelo Island.
Systems:	Marine

Threats [top]

Major Threat(s):	This species may be threatened by localized habitat loss throughout its range, given its association with estuaries, mangroves and coastal areas not close to freshwater (Vega, 2004).

Major Threat(s):

This species may be threatened by localized habitat loss throughout its range, given its association with estuaries, mangroves and coastal areas not close to freshwater (Vega, 2004).

Conservation Actions [top]

Conservation Actions:	There are no known conservation measures for this species. However, this species distribution falls partially into a number of Marine Protected Areas in the Eastern Pacific region (WDPA 2006).

Conservation Actions:

There are no known conservation measures for this species. However, this species distribution falls partially into a number of Marine Protected Areas in the Eastern Pacific region (WDPA 2006).

Citation:	Rojas, P., Cotto, A., Acero, A. & Bessudo, S. 2010. Lutjanus jordani. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 24 May 2013.
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