any of various marine percoid food fishes of the genus Lutjanus, esp L. blackfordi, having a reddish coloration, common in American coastal regions of the Atlantic: family Lutjanidae (snappers)
red snapper in American English
US
1.
a reddish, edible, deep-water snapper fish (Lutjanus campechanus) of the Gulf of Mexico and W Atlantic
2.
any of several other reddish fishes, as a rockfish (Sebastes ruberrimus) of the E Pacific