Glasseye Snapper
Heteropriacanthus cruentatus
Category: Reef Fish
IUCN Conservation Status: LC - Least Concern - species is widespread and abundant, not currently at risk of extinction
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Teleostei
- Order
- Eupercaria incertae sedis
- Family
- Priacanthidae
- Genus
- Heteropriacanthus
Where to Find
Found in 96 diving areas across 57 countries and 10 regions.
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Australia - 1 records
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 1 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 1 records
- Isle of Pines, New Caledonia - 3 records
- Sandy Island, Anguilla - 2 records
- Antigua South Coast, Antigua & Barbuda - 6 records
- Barbuda, Antigua & Barbuda - 1 records
- Abaco, Bahamas - 3 records
- Andros, Bahamas - 3 records
- Bimini, Bahamas - 170 records
- Eleuthera & Harbour Island, Bahamas - 2 records
- Exuma Cays, Bahamas - 3 records
- Long Island, Bahamas - 10 records
- Nassau & New Providence, Bahamas - 9 records
- South Coast, Barbados - 27 records
- West Coast, Barbados - 27 records
- North Shore, Bermuda - 1 records
- Klein Bonaire, Bonaire - 5 records
- Salt Island & Cooper Island, British Virgin Islands - 118 records
- Virgin Gorda & Anegada, British Virgin Islands - 98 records
- Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands - 7 records
- Jardines de la Reina, Cuba - 2 records
- Curaçao Southeast, Curaçao - 7 records
- Cabrits & Northern Coast, Dominica - 1 records
- Bayahibe & La Romana, Dominican Republic - 1 records
- Punta Cana, Dominican Republic - 5 records
- Sosua & Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic - 1 records
- Carriacou, Grenada - 17 records
- Southwest Coast, Grenada - 12 records
- Cousteau Reserve, Guadeloupe - 6 records
- Montego Bay, Jamaica - 1 records
- Negril, Jamaica - 1 records
- Ocho Rios, Jamaica - 1 records
- Diamond Rock, Martinique - 16 records
- Saint-Pierre, Martinique - 2 records
- Fajardo & East Coast, Puerto Rico - 66 records
- La Parguera, Puerto Rico - 77 records
- Rincon & West Coast, Puerto Rico - 120 records
- St. Kitts, St. Kitts & Nevis - 2 records
- Anse La Raye, St. Lucia - 14 records
- Soufriere & The Pitons, St. Lucia - 14 records
- St. Vincent, St. Vincent & the Grenadines - 17 records
- Tobago Cays, St. Vincent & the Grenadines - 15 records
- Tobago, Trinidad & Tobago - 1 records
- St. Croix, US Virgin Islands - 131 records
- St. Thomas & St. John, US Virgin Islands - 125 records
- Lighthouse Reef, Belize - 12 records
- Turneffe Atoll, Belize - 1 records
- Cocos Island, Costa Rica - 64 records
- Caribbean Coast, Guatemala - 8 records
- Utila, Honduras - 12 records
- Coiba National Park, Panama - 1 records
- Bora Bora, French Polynesia - 2 records
- Rangiroa, French Polynesia - 2 records
- Christmas Island (Kiritimati), Kiribati - 11 records
- Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands - 10 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 16 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 5 records
- Iron Bottom Sound, Solomon Islands - 3 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 5 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 11 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 2 records
- Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu - 1 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 1 records
- Okinawa Main Island, Japan - 1 records
- Kenting National Park, Taiwan - 6 records
- Grande Comore, Comoros - 4 records
- Moheli, Comoros - 1 records
- Andaman Islands, India - 1 records
- Lakshadweep, India - 4 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 1 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 7 records
- Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique - 1 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 3 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 30 records
- Cape Town & Western Cape, South Africa - 3 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 5 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 14 records
- Canary Islands, Spain - 53 records
- Sea of Cortez, Mexico - 10 records
- Socorro Islands, Mexico - 77 records
- Yucatán Cenotes, Mexico - 1 records
- Salvador & Bahia, Brazil - 30 records
- Easter Island (Rapa Nui), Chile - 25 records
- Santa Marta & Tayrona, Colombia - 2 records
- Galápagos Islands, Ecuador - 17 records
- Los Roques Archipelago, Venezuela - 1 records
- Bali, Indonesia - 2 records
- Lombok & Gili Islands, Indonesia - 4 records
- Sulawesi, Indonesia - 2 records
- Apo Reef, Philippines - 4 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 3 records
- Siargao, Philippines - 2 records
- Tubbataha Reef, Philippines - 1 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 4 records
- Koh Lanta & Phi Phi, Thailand - 3 records