Scientific Name	Lutjanus bohar   Pronounce			by: Lab of Fish Ecol. and Evo., BRCAS
Author	(Forsskål, 1775)	Depth	1 - 180M
Chinese	白斑笛鯛	Poisonous Fish	Yes
Family_Chinese	笛鯛科	Economic Fish	Yes
Family	F370　Lutjanidae	Edible Fish	Yes	Chinese In Mainland China	白斑笛鯛
Max Length	90 cm	Aquarium Fish	No	Common Name	海豚哥、紅魚曹、花臉、紅槽(臺東)
Distribution in World	India Ocean to West Pacific Ocean	Distribution in Taiwan	East、South、PonFu、LanI Is.、Greeb IS.、Tung Sa IS.、Nan Sa IS.
Habitats	Coral、Benthos、Coastal、Lagoon	Holotype Locality	Arabia
Synonyms	Diacope labuan, Diacope quadriguttata, Lutianus bobar, Lutianus bohar, Lutianus nukuhivae, Lutjanus coatesi, Lutjanus rangus, Mesoprion rangus, Mesoprion rubens, Sciaena bohar, Sparus lepisurus
Reference	臺灣魚類誌(沈等, 1993)  Forsskål, P. 1775 Moyer, J.T. 1977 沈世傑 編 Shih-Chieh Shen ed. 1993
Specimen List	ASIZP0055638. ASIZP0055898. FRIP21375. FRIP22336. NMMBP03065. NMMBP03289. NMMSTP00360. NTMP0431. NTOU-AE6059. NTUM06706.
Common Name	Red bass; Red snapper; Two-spot red snapper; Twinspot red snapper; Twinspot snapper; Twospot snapper; Mylah; Kelp sea perch
Redlist Status	Not in IUCN Redlist
Characteristic	Body moderately deep. Snout somewhat pointed, dorsal profile of head rounded; preorbital bone relatively broad; its width usually greater than eye diameter; a deep groove or pit from nostrils to front of eye; preopercular notch and knob moderately developed; vomerine tooth patch crescentic, without a medial posterior extension; tongue with a patch of granular teeth; gill rakers on lower limb of first gill arch (including rudiments) 16, total rakers on first gill arch 22 or 23. Dorsal fin with X spines and 13 soft rays; anal fin with III spines and 8 soft rays; posterior profile of dorsal and anal fins rounded; pectoral fins with 16 or 17 rays; caudal fin slightly emarginate. Scale rows on back rising obliquely above lateral line. Colour in back and upper sides dark brown or blackish; lower sides and belly reddish, with darker horizontal stripes (between each scale row); fins mainly dusky except pectoral fins pink with dorsal edge prominently black; young and some adults with 2 silvery-white spots on back, one below middle of dorsal fin and one below base of last soft dorsal rays.
habitats	Inhabits coral reefs, including sheltered lagoons and outer reefs. Usually found singly, often adjacent to steep outer reef slopes, but occasionally found in groups. Feeds mainly on fishes, but also takes shrimps, crabs, amphipods, stomatopods, gastropods
Distribution	Distributed in Indo-West Pacific from East Africa to the Marquesas and Line islands, north to the Ryukyu Islands, south to Australia. More common around oceanic islands than in continental areas. It is found in southern Taiwanese waters.
Utility	Utilized fresh and dried-salted. Large fish from oceanic areas in the western Pacific are often ciguatoxic.