| Citation | Starnes, W.C., 1988, Revision, phylogeny and biogeographic comments on the circumtropical marine percoid fish family Priacanthidae.. Bull. Mar. Sci. 43(2):117-203. |
| Ref. | 5403 Starnes, W.C., 1988 |
| Page | 150 |
| Named Used as Valid | Heteropriacanthus cruentatus |
| Comment | |
| Locality | |
| Distribution | Circumglobal in tropical and tropically influenced seas. |
| Quote | Western Atlantic: continental waters from off Florida to Flower Garden Reef off Texas in the Gulf of Mexico; Caribbean islands and along the coast of South America to Argentina. Eastern Atlantic: eastern and mid Atlantic islands from Madeira to St. Helena; not recorded from African continental waters. Indo-Pacific: South and eastern Africa (excluding the Red Sea) eastward in island habitats through the central Pacific. Eastern Pacific: island habitats from off Baja California to the Galapagos; probably uncommon along coast of Mexico, Central and South America, questionably to Chile. |