Species: Heteropriacanthus cruentatus, Glasseye snapper, the Glasseye
Heteropriacanthus cruentatus (Lacepède, 1801)
Glasseye snapper, Glasseye
Body oval, strongly compressed; head profiles nearly symmetrical above and below; a large, upturned, oblique mouth with a projecting lower jaw; tip of lower jaw at level of body midline; no spines on the head; rear of preopercle without scales, with fine ridges, with large flat spine at its angle; gill rakers 21-25; fin spines with tiny spines; dorsal fin X, 12-13, spines not increasing in length towards rear of fin; anal fin III, 13-14; pectoral rays 18-19 (usually 18); pelvics relatively short, < head length, broadly fused to belly; tail fin slightly rounded; scales relatively large, 9-12 rows above lateral line, 63-81 pored scales on lateral line.
Usually pink to red, including fins and iris of eye; tail and soft parts of dorsal and anal fins with elliptical dark specks; can also be overall silvery with red and pink blotches or irregular bars, or silvery pink with yellowish fins.
Size: reaches 51 cm.
Inhabits shallow reefs.
Depth: 5-300 m.
Circumglobal in tropical seas; in the eastern Pacific it ranges from Guadalupe Island to the mouth of the Gulf of California to Ecuador and all the offshore islands, to which it is mainly restricted.
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- Salinity
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- Marine
- Marine Only
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore
- Inshore Only
- Water Column Position
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- Bottom
- Bottom + water column
- Mid Water
- Near Bottom
- Habitat
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- Water column
- Rocks
- Reef only
- Reef associated (reef + edges-water column & soft bottom)
- Corals
- Reef (rock/coral/oyster)
- FishBase Habitat
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- Demersal
- Feeding Group
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- Carnivore
- Planktivore
- Data
- Diet
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- Pelagic crustacea
- Mobile benthic crustacea (shrimps/crabs)
- Octopus/squid/cuttlefish
- Data
- Bony fishes
- Egg Type
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- Pelagic
- Pelagic larva
- No data
- Global Endemism
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- All Pacific (West + Central + East)
- Transisthmian (East Pacific + Atlantic of Central America)
- All species
- "Transpacific" (East + Central &/or West Pacific)
- East Pacific + Atlantic (East +/or West)
- Circumtropical ( Indian + Pacific + Atlantic Oceans)
- East Pacific + all Atlantic (East+West)
- TEP non-endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- Eastern Pacific non-endemic
- Island (s)
- Continent + Island (s)
- Continent
- All species
- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) non-endemic
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- North Temperate (Californian Province &/or Northern Gulf of California)
- Equatorial (Costa Rica to Ecuador + Galapagos, Clipperton, Cocos, Malpelo)
- Northern Subtropical (Cortez Province + Sinaloan Gap)
- Northern Tropical (Mexican Province to Nicaragua + Revillagigedos)
- IUCN Red List
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- Not evaluated / Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 51
- Depth Range Min
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- 5
- Depth Range Max
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- 300
