Heteropriacanthus fulgens, Bright glasseye

Heteropriacanthus fulgens (Lowe, 1838)

Bright glasseye
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Teleostei (teleosts) > Eupercaria/misc (Various families in series Eupercaria) > Priacanthidae (Bigeyes or catalufas)
Etymology: Heteropriacanthus: Greek, heteros = other + Greek, prion = saw + greek, akantha = thorn (Ref. 45335).

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Marine; reef-associated. Subtropical

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Eastern Central Atlantic: off of the Canary Islands and Madeira and Cape Verde Is.

Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 21.4 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 115564)

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Dorsal spines (total): 10; Dorsal soft rays (total): 13; Anal spines: 3; Anal soft rays: 13 - 14. This species is distinguished by the following set of characters: body relatively deep and oval, its body depth at pectoral fin base 2.3-2.4 in SL, at mid-trunk 2.1-2.3 in SL; dorsal-fin origin is above or slightly anterior to the pectoral fin base; preopercle with a short and pointed triangular spine not or nearly reaching the posterior margin of the interopercle; dorsal-fin base, 1.6-1.7 in SL; anal-fin base, 2.3-2.6 in SL, relatively long; eye small, its diameter 2.4-2.6 in HL; interorbital space is broad, its width 3.0-3.3% HL; head length 1.2-1.5 in body depth; caudal-peduncle length 3.0-3.8 in body depth; pored lateral-line scales 60-65; lateral scale rows along the body axis 85-89; transversal scales rows 12-15 + 47-51 = 59-66 (Ref. 115564).
Cross section: compressed.

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

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Main reference Upload your references | References | Coordinator | Collaborators

Fernandez-Silva, I. and H.-C. Ho, 2017. Revision of the cicrumtropical glasseye fish Heteropriacanthus cruentatus (Perciformes: Priacanthidae), with resurrection of two species. Zootaxa 4273(3):341-361. (Ref. 115564)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2)

Not Evaluated 

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





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