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Priacanthus cruentatus (Lacepède, 1801)

Diagnosis: body relatively deep and compressed, depth 34-40% SL. Eyes very large; mouth large and oblique, the lower jaw strongly projecting, the maxilla reaching approximately to vertical from anterior border of the pupil. Gillrakers on lower limb of first arch 16-20. A well-developed spine at corner of preopercle nearly reaching the margin; of opercle. Striate posterior portion of preopercle above and below base of spine scaleless or nearly scaleless. Teeth small, conical, in a narrow band in jaws. Dorsal fin continuous with 10 spines and 13 soft rays; anal fin with 3 spines and 13-14 soft rays; pelvic fins relatively short (less than 67% of head length) and broadly joined to the body by a membrane; caudal fin may be slightly double emarginated in larger specimens. Scales small, ctenoid, 75-85 on lateral line. Colour: varying from red to silvery pink; small dusky spots usually on membranes of soft portions of dorsal and anal fins, and dash-like spots often on caudal fin membrane. Size: to 30 cm SL, usually 20 cm.

Habitat: a shallow-water species found on coral reefs and rocky bottoms, but has been reported down to 300 m. Solitary and primarly nocturnal. Young live pelagically. Food: small fishes (post-larvae), planktonic crustaceans and molluscs. Reproduction: no data.

Distribution: coasts of Madeira. Elsewhere, the Canaries, coastal bottoms from Mauritania to Angola, St. Helena, coast of South Africa in the western Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Marquesas Is., Rangiora, Hawaii, Easter Island; also Caribbean Sea.

Eggs, larvae and young stages. No data.
Otoliths (sagitta). No data.

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Subphylum Vertebrata
Superclass Gnathostomata
Class Osteichthyes
Order Perciformes
Suborder Percoidei
Family Priacanthidae
Genus Priacanthus
Species Priacanthus cruentatus

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Synonym of Heteropriacanthus cruentatus (Lacepède, 1801)

Scientific synonyms and common names

Priacanthus cruentatus (Lacepède, 1801)

Synonyms:

Labrus cruentatus Lacepède, 1801, Hist. nat. Poiss., 3: 452, 522, pl. 2 (fig. 3) (Martinique).
Serranus rufus T. E. Bowdich, 1825, Excurs. Madeira: 122 (Madeira).
Priacanthus carolinus Lesson, 1830, Voy. 'Coquille', Poiss.: 224 (Caroline Islands). Holotype: MNHN no. A 168.
Priacanthus cruentatus: Boulenger, 1895: 352 Jordan et al., 1930: 322 Fowler, 1936: 781 Maul, 1949: 150.


Common names:

beauclaire de roche [Fr]
catalufa de roca [Es]
glass-eye [En]

Boulenger, G. A. 1895. Catalogue of the Perciform fishes in the British Museum, 1, 391 pp., 15 pl.

Bowdich, T. E. 1825. Excursions in Madeira and Porto Santo during the autumn of 1823, while on his third voyage to Africa, London, xii+1-278, Xl pl.+57 fig. (10 n. num. pl.)+l pl. [Fishes of Madeira :121-125].

Fowler, H. W. 1936. The Marine Fishes of West Africa, based on the collection of the American Museum Congo Expedition 1909-1915. Bull. am. Mus. nat. Hist., 70 (1), Jan. 21, 1936: pp. vii+1-606, fig. 1-275; (2), Nov. 18, 1936: pp. 607-1493, fig. 276-567.

Jordan, D. S.; Evermann, B. W.; Clark, H. W. 1930. Check list of the fishes and fishlike vertebrates of North and Middle America north of the northern boundary of Venezuela and Columbia. Rep. U.S. Commnr Fish. for 1928, part II: 670 p. (Reprint 1962, Eric Lundberg, Ashton, Maryland).

Lacepède, B. 1798-1803. Histoire naturelle des Poissons, 5 vol. in-4, Paris. I: 1798, 8+cxlvii+532 pp., 25 pl., 1 tabl. (inset); II: 1800, Ixiv+632 pp., 20 pl.; III: 1801, 558 pp., 34 pl.; IV: 1802, xliv+728 pp., 16 pl.; V: 1803, xlviii+803 pp., 21 pl.

Lesson, R. P. 1830. Poissons, 2 (1): 66-238, Atlas [1826], pl. 1-38. In: L. I. Duperrey, Voyage autour du monde sur la Coquille pendant les années 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825 . . ., Zoologie.

Maul, G. E. 1949. Lista sistematica dos Peixes assinalados nos mares da Madeira, Funchal: pp. 135-181.

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