WoRMS taxon details

Priacanthus blochii Bleeker, 1853

218361  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:218361)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Chordata (Phylum)
  4. Vertebrata (Subphylum)
  5. Gnathostomata (Infraphylum)
  6. Osteichthyes (Parvphylum)
  7. Actinopterygii (Gigaclass)
  8. Actinopteri (Superclass)
  9. Teleostei (Class)
  10. Eupercaria incertae sedis (Order)
  11. Priacanthidae (Family)
  12. Priacanthus (Genus)
  13. Priacanthus blochii (Species)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Bleeker, P. (1853). Diagnostische beschrijvingen van nieuwe of weinig bekende vischsoorten van Batavia. Tiental I-VI. <em>Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië.</em> v. 4 (no. 3): 451-516. [details] 
Description Apparently prefers reef areas and is rarely trawled. Females collected from the Seychelles in March appeared to be nearing...  
Description Apparently prefers reef areas and is rarely trawled. Females collected from the Seychelles in March appeared to be nearing spawning based on condition of the gonads. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Priacanthus blochii Bleeker, 1853. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=218361 on 2025-10-31
Date
action
by
1997-02-24 18:26:33Z
created
Vanden Berghe, Edward
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z
changed
Bailly, Nicolas

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Nomenclature

original description Bleeker, P. (1853). Diagnostische beschrijvingen van nieuwe of weinig bekende vischsoorten van Batavia. Tiental I-VI. <em>Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië.</em> v. 4 (no. 3): 451-516. [details] 

basis of record Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details] 

Ecology

ecology source Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details] OpenAccess publication

Other

additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Unreviewed
Description Apparently prefers reef areas and is rarely trawled. Females collected from the Seychelles in March appeared to be nearing spawning based on condition of the gonads. [details]
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LanguageName 
English silver big-eye  [details]
Japanese アカネキントキ  [details]
To Barcode of Life (31 barcodes) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (12 publications) 
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Priacanthus blochii) 
To FishBase 
To GenBank (26 nucleotides; 16 proteins) 
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern) 
To NMNH Extant Collection (Priacanthus blochii FIN032685 Slide 120 mm) 
To NMNH Extant Collection (Priacanthus blochii USNM 403302 photograph lateral view) 
To ITIS
Unreviewed

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