Heteropriacanthus cruentatus (Lacepède, 1801)

Fermon, Yves, Bailly, Nicolas, Cardiec, Floriane, Causse, Romain, Chartrain, Emmanuel, Chirio, Laurent, Bruyne, Godefroy De, Deynat, Pascal, Hopkins, Carl D., Lamboj, Anton, Mennesson, Marion I., Beh, Jean-Hervé Mve, Paugy, Didier, Sidlauskas, Brian, Sullivan, John P., Weghe, Jean-Pierre Van De, Vigliotta, Thomas R. & Zee, Jouke Van Der, 2022, An annotated checklist of the fishes of Gabon, Cybium 46 (2), pp. 2-3 : 276

Heteropriacanthus cruentatus (Lacepède, 1801)

Occurrence: questionable

Maximum length: 50.7 cm TL

Water type: marine

Environment: reef associated

Depth range: 3-300 m

Migration: unknown

IUCN status: LC – Least concern (2015)

Source: preserved

Distribution and remarks: circumglobal in tropical and tropically influenced seas. Eastern Atlantic: known from Madeira to St. Helena ; not recorded from African continental waters. Records for Gabon: UF 232210-1965, MNHN 1965-0596, ROM 63347-1967.