Priacanthidae

The Priacanthidae are one of Poisson S sailors of Perciformes represented by four S and 19 S.

Their French common noun is “beauclaire”.

Description

They are fish of intermediate size (20 to 50 cm according to the species) to coloring chatoyante and presenting a particularly large eye which was worth their English common nouns to them: “bigeye”, “bullseye”.

List kinds

According to ITIS and FishBase:
  • kind Cookeolus Fowler, 1928 - (1 species)
  • kind Heteropriacanthus Fitch and Crooke, 1984 - (1 species)
  • kind Priacanthus Oken, 1817 - (13 species)
  • kind Pristigenys Agassiz, 1835 - (4 species)

External bonds

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