Dentex macrophthalmus (Bloch, 1791)

Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C. & Abohweyere, P. O., 2003, A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London, Journal of Natural History 37 (18), pp. 2213-2267 : 2246

? Dentex macrophthalmus (Bloch, 1791)

Irvine name. Dentex macrophthalmus (Blocher) [sic].

Reference material. Accra, October 1938 (Irvine 348, p.p. Mr Nortey)— BMNH 2001.5 .2.26 (one damaged: 114 mm SL, not identifiable) .

Distribution. Anti-equatorial distribution reported along the coast of West Africa from Morocco to Cape Verde and from Congo to Namibia. Also recorded from the Canary Islands, Mediterranean and off Portugal (Quéro et al., 1990). This species does not appear to occur in the Gulf of Guinea and this unidentifiable material, like the rest of Irvine’s ‘ Dentex macrophthalmus ’ specimens, is probably either D. angolensis or D. congoensis , neither of which species were described at the time (Poll and Maul, 1953; Poll, 1954).