Priacanthus arenatus Cuvier 1829

Extant specimens: MCUC ZOO.0000002 (Fig. 52a) and MCUC ZOO.0000060 (Fig. 52b).

Classification on the specimen: “P. Th. Labrus haemophtalmus ”

Common names on the specimen (Portuguese/Tupi): “Olho de Cam”/ None.

Comments: This species was undescribed at the time Veloso prepared it. Labrus haemophtalmus is an unavailable name, suggesting that Veloso intended to name this species, which was undescribed at the time. There is a lengthy description of this species in the Ichthyologia Fluminensis. There are 112 herborized specimens of Labrus in the Ajuda’s inventory (Ferreira 1794), however, this species cannot be attributed to any name in the transference lists to the Lisbon Academy of Sciences or the University of Coimbra. Nowadays the common name of this species is “olho-de-cão”. Priacanthus arenatus occurs in the Western Atlantic from North Carolina to Uruguay (Starnes 2002) and eastern Atlantic from Madeira (Portugal) to Angola (Starnes 2016).

Order Moroniformes