Heteropriacanthus

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]

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Heteropriacanthus
Heteropriacanthus cruentatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Actinopterygii
Order:
Perciformes
Suborder:
Percoidei
Family:
Priacanthidae
Genus:
Heteropriacanthus

Fitch and Crooke, 1984

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
  1. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2008). "Heteropriacanthus cruentatus" in FishBase. December 2008 version.
  2. 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.
  3. 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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