Species: Hemilutjanus macrophthalmos, Grape-eye seabass
eye large, dark
Hemilutjanus macrophthalmos (Tschudi, 1846)
Grape-eye seabass
Body deep, compressed; head compressed, pointed, upper profile straight; eye large, dark; mouth large, oblique, lower jaw projecting; upper jaw bone broad, with distinct accessory bone; teeth small, simple, on jaws and top and sides of roof of mouth; preopercle serrated; 29-32 long slender gill rakers; dorsal with X, 10-11, a slight notch between spines and rays; anal with III, 9, spines at rear longest; pelvics inserted immediately behind pectoral base, reach to anus; tail fin slightly concave; lateral line complete, follows humped contour of back; scales small, rough, on all of head and jaws.
Pale greenish-grey, silvery grey below; conspicuous dark line along lateral line; fins pale; iris whitish.
Size: 50 cm.
Habitat: demersal on rocky bottoms.
Depth: 10-55 m.
Southern Colombia to central Chile, the Galapagos.
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- Salinity
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- Marine
- Marine Only
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore Only
- Inshore
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom
- Near Bottom
- Bottom + water column
- Habitat
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- Reef only
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Water column
- Rocks
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- FishBase Habitat
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- Pelagic
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- Data
- Diet
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- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Data
- Bony fishes
- Egg Type
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- Pelagic larva
- No data
- Pelagic
- Global Endemism
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- TEP non-endemic
- East Pacific endemic
- All species
- Regional Endemism
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- Peruvian province, primarily
- Continent
- Continent + Island (s)
- Temperate Eastern Pacific, primarily
- Island (s)
- All species
- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) non-endemic
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo)
- South Temperate (Peruvian Province )
- IUCN Red List
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- Listed
- Data deficient
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 50
- Depth Range Min
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- 10
- Depth Range Max
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- 55
