Glasseye

<i>Heteropriacanthus</i>

Heteropriacanthus

Genus of fishes


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]

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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.) (2008). "Heteropriacanthus cruentatus" in 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. 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. 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.



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