Priacanthus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Priacanthiformes
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Kingdom: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii Infraclassis: Teleostei Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai Supercohors: Clupeocephala Cohors: Euteleosteomorpha Subcohors: Neoteleostei Infracohors: Eurypterygia Sectio: Ctenosquamata Subsectio: Acanthomorphata Divisio/Superordo: Acanthopterygii Subdivisio: Percomorphaceae Series: Eupercaria Ordo: Priacanthiformes

Familia: Priacanthidae
Genus:
Species: P. alalaua – P. arenatus – P. blochii – P. fitchi – P. hamrur – P. macracanthus – P. meeki – P. nasca – P. prolixus – P. sagittarius – P. tayenus – P. zaiserae
†P. liui –

Name

Priacanthus Oken (ex Cuvier), 1817

Gender: Masculine
Type species: Anthias macrophthalmus Bloch, 1792
- Type by subsequent designation

Synonyms

Abuhamrur Forsskål, 1775
Bogoda Blyth, 1860
Boops Gronow in Gray, 1854

References

Oken, L. 1817: V. Kl. Fische. Isis (Oken) 8(148): 1779-1782

Links

Priacanthus – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
Priacanthus in the World Register of Marine Species
Priacanthus species list in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2025. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.
Priacanthus and its species (including synonyms) in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2025. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.

Vernacular names

English: Bigeyes