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Updated 11/22/2022

Family Priacanthidae

INDO-WEST PACIFIC / HAWAII

TROPICAL EASTERN PACIFIC

 Heteropriacanthus carolinus

Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

 

Sea Cave, Oahu, 40 feet

Night color, Cargo Pier, Midway Atoll, 20 feet

 

PACIFIC GLASSEYE    'āweoweo    Gomahire-kintoki-dai    Catalufa de roca

A solitary species occasionally seen in dark holes by day, emerging at night to feed upon small fishes and mobile invertebrates.  The body outline has rounded contours, the trailing edge of the tail is rounded or convex and the soft fin rays with dark spots.  Attains 17 inches.  East Africa to Hawaii and the Tropical Eastern Pacific.  The Atlantic species retains the original name Heteropriacanthus cruentatus.