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before, near Matanilla Shoal (northwest end of the Little Bahama Bank). 
Lutjanidae 
Etelis oculatus (Valenciennes 1828) 
A single adult specimen of the queen snapper (UF 42778, 673 
mm SL) was collected with hook and line 135 km south of Southport, 
North Carolina at a depth of 201 m on 11 March 1985. Two other 
adults were landed (not saved) from northern Long Bay, North Carolina: 
one (915 mm TL) from 219 m in April 1989 and one (685 mm TL) 
from 164 m in March 1993. These are the first adults of E. oculatus 
recorded north of Florida. Two other small juvenile specimens are 
known from off the Carolinas (44 mm SL (Anderson and Fourmanoir 
1975) and 30 mm FL, South Carolina Marine Resources Monitoring, 
Assessment, and Prediction Program collections, 33°02.7'N, 77°55.5'W, 
59 m, 3 September 1976). Etelis oculatus ranges in the western Atlantic 
from North Carolina and Bermuda south through the Gulf of Mexico 
(Burgess and Branstetter 1985), the Bahamas, the West Indies, and 
the Caribbean to Brazil (Anderson 1981, Allen 1985). 
Lutjanus purpureus Poey 1867 
The Caribbean red snapper, mainly a continental shelf species, 
was previously known only from the Caribbean (Yucatan and Cuba) 
south through the Antilles to northeastern Brazil (Allen 1985). There 
has been some question whether it may be synonymous with L. campechanus 
(Poey) (Vergara R. 1978). Our records demonstrate that these two 
species of red snappers are sympatric at least through the South Atlantic 
Bight. The South Carolina Marine Resources Monitoring, Assessment, 
and Prediction Program has collected three specimens by trawl: 320 
mm FL, 34°36.4'N, 76°12.8'W in 35 m, 4 May 1974; 30 mm FL, 
30°49.7'N, 81°10.7'W in 13 m, 18 August 1974; 40 mm FL, 30°22'N, 
81°18.7'W in 12 m, 18 August 1974. The following records of large 
adults were obtained from the commercial snapper/grouper fishery: 
615 mm TL (specimen photographed but lost), 33°31.3'N, 76°56.5'W 
in 64 m, 15 June 1988; 620 mm TL (specimen sold), northern Long 
Bay, NC in 54 m, January 1989; 540 mm TL (specimen sold), southern 
Onslow Bay, NC in 38 m, June 1989; 630 mm TL (specimen sold), 
southern Onslow Bay in 42 m, August 1989; 610 mm TL (specimen 
sold), southern Onslow Bay in 42 m, May 1990. The commercial 
fishermen generally did not recognize that these fish were different 
from L. campechanus ; however, we verified the identifications of the 
specimens marketed at the fish houses. We distinguished these two 
species of Lutjanus by lateral line scale counts and relative body depths 
