Atlantic Bigeye

Priacanthus arenatus

Also known as: Catalufa, Common Bigeye, Glass Snapper, Glassy Snapper, Goggle Eye, Johnny Diggens, Moonshine Conga, Moonshine Snapper, Red Bigeye

ALSO KNOWN AS

Catalufa
Common Bigeye
Glass Snapper
Glassy Snapper
Goggle Eye
Johnny Diggens
Moonshine Conga
Moonshine Snapper
Red Bigeye

LCLeast ConcernIUCN Red List, 2015

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Overview

Found in small schools, during the day close to the bottom of coral and rocky reefs, dispersing at night to hunt for food.
They feed nocturnally on crustaceans, small fish and worms.
Widespread Tropical Atlantic, Caribbean, Mediterranean

Bigeyes can change colour from red, reddish brown to silver with mood, also at night they will change to a pale blotched pattern.

How to identify

COLOURS

Pattern: stripes
Head & Mouth: big eyes
Behaviour: changes colour nocturnal schooling

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Habitat & where to find it

Range · Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean, Mediterranean

LIVES IN

Found in small schools, during the day close to the bottom of coral and rocky reefs, dispersing at night to hunt for food.

RANGE

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Kevin Rademacher· 14 Feb 2020
Fish in photo is not a Bigeye, but a Squirrelfish. With the yellow coloration visible on the dorsal fin it is Holocentrus adscensionis, the Squirrelfish. The fish in photo exhibits a deeply forked caudal fin which squirrelfishes posses, bigeyes have a more emarginate or lunate caudal fin. The color pattern exhibited by the fish more closely resembles that of Squirrelfish with the whitish caudal peduncle, anal fin & caudal fin. The Bigeye exhibits a more uniformly red color over the whole body & fins.
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fishx6Top Contributor· 15 Feb 2020
Thank you for the information, we have moved the fish to the right page. We are only amateurs and do sometimes get things wrong, so any help is appreciated! Thank You Lorraine
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