Heteropriacanthus

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Heteropriacanthus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Acanthuriformes
Family: Priacanthidae
Genus: Heteropriacanthus
Fitch & Crooke, 1984
Species:
H. cruentatus
Binomial name
Heteropriacanthus cruentatus
(Lacépède, 1801)
Synonyms[1]
  • Anthias boops Forster, 1801
  • Cookeolus boops (Forster, 1801)
  • Labrus cruentatus Lacepède, 1801
  • Priacanthus bonariensis Cuvier, 1829
  • Priacanthus boops (Forster, 1801)
  • Priacanthus cepedianus Desmarest, 1823
  • Priacanthus cruentatus (Lacepède, 1801)
  • Serranus rufus Bowdich, 1825

Heteropriacanthus, the glasseyes or glass bigeyes, 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.[2][3][4]

The glasseyes has been classified in a single species, Heteropriacanthus cruentatus,[5] but recent morphological and genetic analysis indicates that glasseyes may be better divided into three species: Heteropriacanthus cruentatus (Atlantic Ocean and southwest Indian Ocean), H. fulgens (northeastern Atlantic), and H. carolinus (Indo-Pacific).[6] H.cruentatus can differentiated from the rest of its genus by looking at its caudal and anal fin in which is distinct in colour.[7]

  1. ^ "Heteropriacanthus cruentatus". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 9 April 2022.
  2. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Heteropriacanthus cruentatus". FishBase. December 2008 version.
  3. ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Priacanthidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 15 November 2020.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference Lozano-Bilbao was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ Gaither, M. R.; Bernal, M. A.; Fernandez-Silva, I.; Mwale, M.; Jones, S. A.; Rocha, C.; Rocha, L. A. (September 2015). "Two deep evolutionary lineages in the circumtropical glasseye Heteropriacanthus cruentatus (Teleostei, Priacanthidae) with admixture in the south-western Indian Ocean: two deep lineages in circumtropical heteropriacanthus cruentatus". Journal of Fish Biology. 87 (3): 715–727. doi:10.1111/jfb.12754. PMID 26333139.