Author: (Cuvier, 1828)
FBname: Humphead snapper
Comments: Adults inhabit coral and rocky reefs to depths of at least 100 m (Ref. 30573).  Off South Africa they display a preference for slightly silty, turbid regions in the vicinity of sometimes shallow, offshore banks.  Captured mainly at night on coral banks off Mafia Island (Tanzania) in 9 to 12 m and off Zanzibar in about 75 m.  They are active at night feeding over sandy or rubble bottoms (Ref. 9710).  Maximum depth reported taken from Ref. 9773.