Heteropriacanthus

Heteropriacanthus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Division: Teleostei
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]

References

  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. ↑ Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Priacanthidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 15 November 2020.
  4. ↑ Lozano-Bilbao, Enrique; Domínguez, David; González, José A.; Lorenzo, José M.; Lozano, Gonzalo; Hardisson, Arturo; Rubio, Carmen; Weller, Dailos-González; Paz, Soraya; Gutiérrez, Ángel J. (June 2021). "Risk assessment and study of trace/heavy metals in three species of fish of commercial interest on the island of El Hierro (Canary Islands, eastern-central Atlantic)". Journal of Food Composition and Analysis. 99 103855. Bibcode:2021JFCA...9903855L. doi:10.1016/j.jfca.2021.103855. S2CID 233935621.
  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. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4273.3.2. PMID 28610238.
  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". Journal of Fish Biology. 87 (3): 715–727. Bibcode:2015JFBio..87..715G. doi:10.1111/jfb.12754. PMID 26333139.