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Black-fin Snapper
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This is a small and strongly marked species, occurring in the West Indies and common in deep water about Havana, in the market of which it is known as sesi or sesi de lo alto.
Colour, crimson in life, silvery below but flushed with crimson; axil and base of pectoral jet-black; eye orange; dorsal crimson, its edge scarlet; caudal orange-yellow, this colour extending upon the caudal peduncle; last rays of soft dorsal and most of anal and ventrals yellow; pectoral, base of anal, and ventral spine pinkish.