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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

Animalia (kingdom)  »  Chordata (phylum)  »  Actinopterygii (class)  »  Perciformes (order)  »  Priacanthidae (family)

CAAB Code: 37 326001 show as JSON
Scientific Name
and Authority:

Priacanthus macracanthus   Cuvier, 1829

Rank: Species
CAAB category: 37 - Pisces Fishes

Australian National Fish Collection (ANFC) Fishmap images

Image by: Australian National Fish Collection, CSIRO
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike
Rights: Australian National Fish Collection, CSIRO
Family: 37 326 Priacanthidae (Bigeyes) - show full list
Standard Name
(AS 5300): 		Spotted Bigeye
Common Names List: red bigeye
bigeye
Organism Type: a bigeye
Taxon lists: Current Australian list:
Commercial species list:
Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat: Coastal (0-40m)
Shelf Demersal (40-200m)
Slope Demersal (200-2000m)
Parent Codes: 37 326901     Priacanthus spp.
Previous Codes
(if any):		 326001
Distribution map:
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Modelled distribution shown as blue polygon (source: Australian National Fish Expert Distributions) Updated on 2026-06-12.
Occurrence locations [1019] shown as red circles - View CSIRO Catch records Get expert distribution shapefile
Expected species depth range is from 2 to 300 m.
Taxon Notes:Hashimoto & Motomura (2024) split Priacanthus macracanthus into two species: P. macracanthus is recorded from the eastern Indian and western Pacific oceans, including Japan, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and both eastern and north-western Australia, whereas P. gracilis (CAAB code 37 326007) is only known from eastern Australia (Qld & NSW). The distributions maps for both species currently only include material confirmed from Hashimoto & Motomura 2024, but it is likely both species have broader distributions in Australia.

Identifiers:
Australian Faunal Directory (AFD) urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:82a5a161-772c-4b3c-b1ac-bd2b34fe02eb
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2026-06-12
View at Atlas of Living Australia
Fishes of Australia 1831
View at Fishes of Australia
World Register of Marine Species urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:273765
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2026-06-12
View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)
Record source and
Scientific Name
verified against:		 Hashimoto, S. & Motomura, H., 2024. A new species of bigeye, Priacanthus gracilis (Perciformes: Priacanthidae), from eastern Australia., Ichthyological Research, Vol. 72, 1: 85-97. doi:10.1007%2Fs10228-024-00969-x
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