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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 326008 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Heteropriacanthus carolinus   (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 (AS5300): Blotched Bigeye Common Names List: yellow spot bigeye Organism Type: a bigeye Synonyms: Heteropriacanthus cruentatus (Lacépède, 1801) [in most references prior to 2017] Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Coastal (0-40m) Shelf Demersal (40-200m) Parent Codes: 37 326903     Heteropriacanthus spp. Previous Codes (if any): 326008

Distribution map: View detailed map or click on map to see same. Modelled distribution shown as blue polygon (source: Australian National Fish Expert Distributions) Updated on 2009-01-06. Occurrence locations [77] shown as red circles - View CSIRO Catch records Get expert distribution shapefile Expected species depth range is from 0 to 25 m.

Taxon Notes:	Fernandez-Silva & Ho (2017) resurrected the name H. carolinus for this species that was previously referred to as Heteropriacanthus cruentatus. The former is widespread in the Indo-Pacific and the latter is restricted to the Atlantic and possibly SW Indian Ocean.
Identifiers:	FoA 4461 Checked on: 2020-10-20 View at FoA WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:127004 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2016-05-11 View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)