Priacanthus arenatus Cuvier 1829

Ceríaco, Luis M. P., Santos, Bruna S., Semedo, Thiago B. F., Garcia, Lucas Canes & Moreira, Cristiano Rangel, 2023, The fish collection of José Mariano da Conceição Veloso (1742 - 1811) and the beginning of ichthyological research in Brazil, with a taxonomic description of the extant specimens, Zootaxa 5391 (1), pp. 1-85 : 67

Priacanthus arenatus Cuvier 1829

Extant specimens: MCUC ZOO.0000002 ( Fig. 52a ) and MCUC ZOO.0000060 ( Fig. 52b ).

Classification on the specimen: “P. Th. Labrus haemophtalmus ”

Common names on the specimen (Portuguese/Tupi): “Olho de Cam”/ None.

Comments: This species was undescribed at the time Veloso prepared it. Labrus haemophtalmus is an unavailable name, suggesting that Veloso intended to name this species, which was undescribed at the time. There is a lengthy description of this species in the Ichthyologia Fluminensis. There are 112 herborized specimens of Labrus in the Ajuda’s inventory ( Ferreira 1794), however, this species cannot be attributed to any name in the transference lists to the Lisbon Academy of Sciences or the University of Coimbra. Nowadays the common name of this species is “olho-de-cão”. Priacanthus arenatus occurs in the Western Atlantic from North Carolina to Uruguay ( Starnes 2002) and eastern Atlantic from Madeira ( Portugal) to Angola ( Starnes 2016).

Order Moroniformes

Figures

FIGURE 52. Priacanthus arenatus Cuvier 1829; a: MCUC ZOO.0000002, 260 mm SL; b: MCUC ZOO.0000060, 220 mm SL. Photos by Luis M. P. Ceríaco.