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Humpnose Big-eye Bream

Monotaxis grandoculis

Classification

Monotaxis grandoculis, commonly known as the humpnose big-eye bream, bigeye barenose, bigeye bream, bigeye emperor, grand-eyed porgy fish, humpnose sea-bream, large-eye bream, mu or roundtooth large-eye bream, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Lethrinidae, the emperors and emperor breams. This species is found in the Indian and Pacific Ocean. Taxonomy Monotaxis grandoculis was first formally described as Sciaena grandoculis in 1775 by the Swedish-speaking Finnish explorer, orientalist, naturalist Peter Forsskål with its type locality given as Jeddah.

Distribution

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