Photo: Hugues Evano (IFREMER, Délégation océan Indien (DOI), Département Ressources Biologiques et Environnement (RBE), F-97420 Le Port, France) · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Description
- 📏 up to 40 cm
- 🌊 reef slopes, cavities
The glasseye is a red fish with big eyes that hides by day in cavities of the reef. At night it comes out to hunt, and its colour changes from plain red to silver-barred.
Did you know?
In Tahitian it is called maere (Tahiti) or uvene (Leeward Islands). Its big eyes help it see in the dim light.
Source: TAXREF vernacular database
Tahitian names: TAXREF (INPN/MNHN) – Society Islands. French name: Priacanthe sangland.
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