Species: Cookeolus japonicus, Long-fin Bulleye, Long-fin bigeye, the Bulleye
Cookeolus japonicus (Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1829)
Bulleye, Long-fin bulleye, Long-fin bigeye
Body a compressed oval; bone before eye with large serrations at front; a large, upturned, oblique mouth with a projecting lower jaw; no spines on the head; preopercle spineless; gill rakers 23-27; fin spines with tiny spines; dorsal fin X, 13-14, spines increasing in length from 1st to last, 10th spine > 2x length of 2nd; anal III, 12-14; soft dorsal and anal fins long and bluntly pointed (except in very large fish); pelvic fins very long, > head length (2X head length in juveniles), broadly fused to belly; tail edge W shaped; scales moderate sized, 60-73 in lateral series, 16-20 between dorsal fin origin and lateral line.
Crimson to scarlet red to yellowish red, including fins and iris of eye; pelvic fin membranes dusky to blackish. Juvenile with black pelvics, black tint to red membranes of dorsal and anal fins.
Size: attains 68 cm.
Habitat: rocky bottoms.
Depth: generally found in deep water (100-400 m), but occasionally to ~ 30 m, where they can be observed by Scuba divers.
Circumglobal in tropical seas; in the eastern Pacific it ranges from lower Baja and the lower eastern Gulf of California to Peru and Cocos, Malpelo and the Revillagigedos.
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- Salinity
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- Marine Only
- Marine
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore Only
- Inshore
- Water Column Position
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- Near Bottom
- Bottom
- Mid Water
- Bottom + water column
- Habitat
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- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- Rocks
- Reef only
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Water column
- FishBase Habitat
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- Bentho-Pelagic
- Feeding Group
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- Planktivore
- Data
- Diet
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- Zooplankton
- Pelagic crustacea
- Data
- Egg Type
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- No data
- Pelagic larva
- Pelagic
- Global Endemism
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- Circumtropical ( Indian + Pacific + Atlantic Oceans)
- TEP non-endemic
- All Pacific (West + Central + East)
- "Transpacific" (East + Central &/or West Pacific)
- All species
- East Pacific + all Atlantic (East+West)
- East Pacific + Atlantic (East +/or West)
- Transisthmian (East Pacific + Atlantic of Central America)
- Regional Endemism
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- Continent
- Eastern Pacific non-endemic
- All species
- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) non-endemic
- Island (s)
- Continent + Island (s)
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Northern Tropical (Mexican Province to Nicaragua + Revillagigedos)
- Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo)
- South Temperate (Peruvian Province )
- Northern Subtropical (Cortez Province + Sinaloan Gap)
- IUCN Red List
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- Not evaluated / Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 68
- Depth Range Min
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- 30
- Depth Range Max
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- 400
