Priacanthus meeki

Priacanthus meeki is a species of marine ray finned fish, a bigeye in the family Priacanthidae. It is a red fish found in the Hawaiian and Midway Islands. It grows to a size of 33 cm in length.[2] Common names are Hawaiian bigeye in English and ula lau au in the Hawaiian language.[2] It, and other species of its family, may also be called āweoweo in Hawaii. Its specific name honours the American ichthyologist Seth Eugene Meek (1859-1914).[3]

Priacanthus meeki
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Priacanthidae
Genus: Priacanthus
Species:
P. meeki
Binomial name
Priacanthus meeki
Jenkins, 1903
Synonyms[2]

Priacanthus helvolus Jordan, Evermann & Tanaka, 1927

References

  1. Carpenter, K.E.; Lawrence, A. & Myers, R. (2016). "Priacanthus meeki". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T69545542A69545849. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T69545542A69545849.en. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). "Priacanthus meeki" in FishBase. December 2019 version.
  3. Jenkins, O. P. (1903). "Report on collections of fishes made in the Hawaiian Islands, with descriptions of new species". Bulletin of the U. S. Fish Commission. 22 (1902): 417–511.


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