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Heteropriacanthus cruentatus

Kū Pā

Glasseye

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General Information

COMMON NAMES: Glasseye, Red Globe-eye, Glass Bigeye, Glasseye Snapper; German Glasaugenbarsch; French Gros Yeu, Beauclaire de Roche

TRADITIONAL NAMES: Kū Pā (RR), Pō Nui (MG), Māpare (AT MK MT), Kūpā (AK), Kupa (PL), Palu (TS), Paru (TW), Matapula? (PK); Other Polynesian - Maere (TAH), Euvene (TAH-L), Kopa (T), mataere (MVA), Mea‘ukua Papa (MQA)

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: NATIVE circumtropical incl. e.Africa - Easter, Hawai‘i - tropical America; n. to s.Japan; s. to Norfolk

COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Native; PLUS: MH, PL & RR. Common, outer slope. Spear.; Marine, near-shore

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Cook Islands Distribution

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Southern Group: Present Makatea:
RR	MG	AT	MK	MT	AK	PL	TK	MN
P	P					P

Northern Group: Present
TN	MH	RK	PK	NS	SW
	P		P		P

Key to Symbols

blank	no data
-	absent	L	localised
X	extinct 'naturally'	W	widespread
XQi	quarantine intercepted	R	recent
XQe	eradicated	?	query preceding category
P	present	T?	taxonomic query
S	seasonal	nn	present, said to have no name
O	occasional	?1	present, name not investigated
++++	very common	?2	presence not verified, no name recorded
+++	common	N/A	absent, name not expected
++	uncommon
+	rare
Cook Islands islands: RR =Rarotonga, MG = Mangaia, AT =‘Ātiu, MK=Ma‘uke, MT=Miti‘āro, AK=Aitutaki, PL=Palmerston, PN=Penrhyn, MN=Manuae, TK=Takūtea, TN=Tongareva (TS=Tongaleva Spoken, TW=Tongareva Written, they say "el" but write "r"), MH=Manihiki, RK=Rakahanga, PK=Pukapuka, NS=Nassau, SW=Suwarrow. After a Polynesian name: ^=orthography query. Countries and other: FIJ=Fiji, WT=Wallis & Futuna, SAM=Samoa, TON=Tonga, NIU=Niue, CK=Cook Islands, CKM=Cook Islands Māori, FP=French Polynesia, AUS=Australs, SOC=Societies, TAH=Tahiti, TUA=Tuamotus, MQS=Marquesas, MNG=Mangareva, PIT=Pitcain group, EAS=Easter Island, HAW=Hawai‘i, NZ=New Zealand, NZM=New Zealand Māori

Scientific Taxonomy

Heteropriacanthus cruentatus (Lacepède, 1801)
SYNONYMS: Labrus cruentatus [O]; Priacanthus cruentatus

TAXONOMY: ANIMALIA; CHORDATA; GNATHOSTOMATA (Jawed Vertebrates); PISCES; OSTEICHTHYES; Perciformes; Percoidei; Percoidea; PRIACANTHIDAE

Vouchers & References

Vouchers:
Rarotonga: 4 specimens set gillnet, Avatiu, ID Sims confirmed Randall, BPBM (Sims88). Manihiki: 1 specimen #A685 (B&M74). Pukapuka: fieldspecimen+photo, 2/2004, G.McCormack with ID as Heteropriacanthus cruentatus. Suwarrow: by who? (Sims EIA99).

References:
text p.126 Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia
plate 44b Myers (1991 2nd Ed.) Fishes of Micronesia
p.135 Randall et al. (1990) Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef....
plate 39-05 Lieske & Myers (1996) Coral Reef Fishes
plate 31-02 Allen (1997) Marine Fishes of Tropical Australia....
Species No. 510 Munro (1967) Fishes of New Guinea

Data Update History (information):
zTX, zB02, zM02, zupM06a

Web Resources

Citation Information

McCormack, Gerald (2007) Cook Islands Biodiversity Database, Version 2007.2. Cook Islands Natural Heritage Trust, Rarotonga. Online at http://cookislands.bishopmuseum.org.
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