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Description
- 📏 up to 90 cm
- 🌊 outer slopes, passes, drop-offs
The red bass is a large, massive snapper, red-brown and silvery. It hunts small fish near drop-offs. Large individuals, predators at the top of the food chain, often carry ciguatera.
In island life
In Polynesia, ciguatera is well known: fishermen and residents avoid eating large snappers, notably the red bass (haʻamea in Tahitian), in risk areas.
Source: Public health – ciguatera in French Polynesia
Tahitian names: TAXREF (INPN/MNHN) – Society Islands. French name: Lutjan rouge.
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