Heteropriacanthus
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| Heteropriacanthus cruentatus | |
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| Genus: | Heteropriacanthus Fitch and Crooke, 1984
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Glasseyes or glass bigeyes (Heteropriacanthus) are a genus of the bigeye family found in all tropical seas around the world. It occasionally makes its way into the aquarium trade. It grows to a size of 50.7 cm (20.0 in) in total length.[1]
All glasseyes used to classified in a single species, Heteropriacanthus cruentatus,[2] but recent morphological and genetic analysis indicates that glasseyes should be divided into three species: Heteropriacanthus cruentatus (Atlantic Ocean and southwest Indian Ocean), H. fulgens (northeastern Atlantic), and H. carolinus (Indo-Pacific).[3]
References
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Heteropriacanthus cruentatus". FishBase. December 2008 version.
- ^ Starnes, W. C., 1988. Revision, phylogeny and biogeographic comments on the circumtropical marine percoid fish family Priacanthidae. Bulletin of Marine Science, 43 (2): 117-203.
- ^ I. Fernandez-Silva and H.-C. Ho, 2017. Revision of the circumtropical glasseye fish Heteropriacanthus cruentatus (Perciformes: Priacanthidae), with resurrection of two species. Zootaxa 4273 (3): 341–361.
External links
- Photos of Heteropriacanthus on Sealife Collection
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