Ringeye Hawkfish, Paracirrhites arcatus (Cuvier 1829)
Other Names: Arc-eye Hawkfish, Arc-eyed Hawkfish, Horseshoe Hawkfish, Ring-eye Hawkfish, Ringeyed Hawkfish, Ring-eyed Hawkfish, Whiteline Hawkfish
A Ringeye Hawkfish, Paracirrhites arcatus, at Carpet Cove, Beqa Lagoon, Fiji. Source: Richard Ling / Flickr. License: CC BY Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike
Summary:
A variably coloured hawkfish with a horseshoe-shaped marking behind the eye, three short orange bars within a pale blue area on the lower part of the gill cover, and usually a broad pale stripe along the rear of the lateral line. The dorsal-fin spines are tipped with branched cirri.
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Bray, D.J. 2019, Paracirrhites arcatus in Fishes of Australia, accessed 20 Apr 2024, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/species/440
Ringeye Hawkfish, Paracirrhites arcatus (Cuvier 1829)
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Distribution |
Off Shark Bay to the Murion Islands and offshore reefs of Western Australia, Ashmore Reef, Timor Sea, and the northern Great Barrier Reef, and reefs in the Coral Sea, to the Solitary Islands, new South Wales; also Christmas Island and Cocos (Keeling) Islands in the eastern Indian Ocean, and Middleton and Elizabeth reefs, and Norfolk Island in the Tasman Sea. Elsewhere the species is widespread in the tropical, Indo-west-central Pacific from East Africa through the Indo-Pacific, north to Japan, east through the East Indian region to the Hawaiian Islands and Pitcairn Islands, and south to Australia. Inhabits coastal lagoons and seaward reefs at depths of 1-35 m, but has been reported to 91 m. Individuals usually perch on small branching corals. |
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Feeding |
Feeds mostly on shrimps, small fishes, crabs, and other crustaceans. |
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Remarks |
Dark and light colour morphs of this species occur together, each inhabiting different basaltic and coral microhabitats a few metres apart (Whitney et al. 2018). |
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Species Citation |
Cirrhites arcatus Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1829, Histoire Naturelle des Poissons 3: 74. Type locality: Mauritius. |
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Author |
Bray, D.J. 2019 |
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Ringeye Hawkfish, Paracirrhites arcatus (Cuvier 1829)
References
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Whitney, J.L., Bowen, B.W. & Karl, S.A. 2018. Flickers of speciation: Sympatric colour morphs of the arc‐eye hawkfish, Paracirrhites arcatus, reveal key elements of divergence with gene flow. Molecular Ecology 27: 1479–1493. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.14527 Abstract
