Vermilion Snapper
Coastal Habitats
Animals of the Gulf Waters
Vermilion Snapper
Rhomboplites aurorubens
Vermilion snappers look a lot like their relatives the red snappers but they're smaller and have yellow lines on their sides and a pale belly. They live with red snappers, too, preferring the flat areas on the tops and around the bases of the snapper banks to their steeply sloping sides.
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