Glasseye Snapper

Heteropriacanthus cruentatus

Also known as: Atlantic Bigeye, Bigeye, Blotched Bigeye, Bullseye, Common Bigeye, Duskyfin Bigeye, Dusky-finned Bigeye, Glass Bigeye, Glasseye, Glasseye Squirrelfish, Google Eye, Moonshine Snapper, Red Bigeye, Rock Bullseye

ALSO KNOWN AS

Atlantic Bigeye
Bigeye
Blotched Bigeye
Bullseye
Common Bigeye
Duskyfin Bigeye
Dusky-finned Bigeye
Glass Bigeye
Glasseye
Glasseye Squirrelfish
Google Eye
Moonshine Snapper
Red Bigeye
Rock Bullseye

LCLeast ConcernIUCN Red List, 2015

LIFE STAGE

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Glasseye Snapper adult, photographed at Jupiter, FL, United States — @chrisjttravis · Jupiter, FL, United States · May 20151 / 10

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Overview

Found singly, or in small to large schools, during the day, under or close to ledges, dispersing at night to hunt for food, over lagoons and protected seaward reefs.
They feed nocturnally on small fish, invertebrates and octopus.

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: bars blotches spots
Behaviour: changes colour nocturnal schooling solitary

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Habitat & where to find it

Where the adult stage lives, and where its photos were taken.

Range · Circumtropical
Exact location · 2
Country only · 8

LIVES IN

Found singly, or in small to large schools, during the day, under or close to ledges, dispersing at night to hunt for food, over lagoons and protected seaward reefs.

RANGE