Parakuhlia macrophthalmus (Osorio, 1894)

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 : 2242

Parakuhlia macrophthalmus (Osorio, 1894)

Irvine name. Parakuhlia boulengeri Pellegrin. A junior synonym.

Reference material. Accra, September 1938 (Irvine 343)— BMNH 1939.7 .12.20 (one: 94.4 mm SL) .

Distribution. Coast of tropical West Africa from Guinea to Angola (Maugé and Desoutter in Quéro et al., 1990: 711).

This species has been place in the family Kuhliidae by several recent authors but is now thought to be a haemulid (Nelson, 1994).