flame snapper

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Etelis coruscans is a species of snapper found in the Pacific and Indian oceans. It has many common names, including deepwater longtail red snapper, longtail snapper, and deep-water red snapper. It is a valuable commercial species, and lives quite deep – typically from 90 to 400 m (300 to 1,310 ft), (210 to 300 m (690 to 980 ft) in Hawaiʻi). It is a long-lived species that grows and matures slowly. In Hawaiʻi the fish is widely known as onaga. When eaten, it has a mild flavour and pale pink flesh.

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Identity & source status

Scientific name

Etelis coruscans Valenciennes, 1862

Name authority

Valenciennes, 1862

Common name

flame snapper

Rank

species

Accepted status

accepted

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Teleostei

Family

Lutjanidae

Genus

Etelis

Extinction status

Not supplied by this source

Source habitat flags: Marine: yes · Freshwater: no · Terrestrial: no. These do not form a complete habitat description.

Classification family tree

Nested taxonomic groups from the source. This is not a direct-ancestor chain, a dated evolutionary tree or a phylogenetic reconstruction.

1. domainEukaryota (Chatton, 1925) Whittaker & Margulis, 1978
2. kingdomAnimalia
3. phylumChordata
4. subphylumVertebrata
5. infraphylumGnathostomata
6. parvphylumOsteichthyes
7. gigaclassActinopterygii
8. superclassActinopteri
9. classTeleostei
10. familyLutjanidae Gill, 1861
11. genusEtelis Cuvier, 1828
12. speciesEtelis coruscans Valenciennes, 1862

Close classified relatives

These entries share the source’s genus, Etelis. They are not necessarily the closest relatives established by molecular evidence.

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Names & synonyms

Names explicitly linked to this accepted taxon in the source. Synonymy can change with revision.

Source literature & publication evidence

References attached to this source record, including nomenclatural citations where supplied. This is a selected bibliography; abbreviated citations remain in the source’s form.

1. Valenciennes, A. (1862). Description de quelques espèces nouvelles de poissons envoyées de Bourbon par M. Morel, directeur du Muséum d’Histoire naturelle de cette île. Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires Des Séances de l’Académie Des Sciences, v. 54: 1165–1170; (suite) 1201–1207. Source fields: Taxon.tsv dwc:namePublishedIn, Taxon.tsv dcterms:references

Origins, evidence & remaining research

Name authority and publication references document nomenclature where the source supplies it. They do not establish evolutionary origins or the earliest fossil occurrence.

Specimen-level evidence, morphology, ecological research, phylogenetic studies, a comprehensive bibliography and a located literary passage have not yet been compiled for this record. A suitable sourced image remains to be added.

Dataset citation & attribution

This exact taxon in ChecklistBank · Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11

Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11; dataset 316321; doi:10.48580/dgz5n. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Retrieved 5 October 2026.

Stable key: col:3BKMD. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.