''Synchiropus grandoculis'', the Western Australian bigeye dragonet, is a

species A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...

of fish in the

dragonet Dragonets are small Percomorpha, percomorph marine fish of the diverse family Callionymidae (from the Greek language, Greek ''kallis'', "beautiful" and ', "name") found mainly in the tropical waters of the western Indo-Pacific. They are Benthos, ...

family Callionymidae. It is found in the eastern Indian Ocean along the coast of Western Australia.

Etymology

The name of the fish comes from ''grandis'' meaning large, and ''oculus'', meaning eye, referring to its "unusually large" eyes.

References

grandoculis Fish of the Pacific Ocean Fish of East Asia Taxa named by Ronald Fricke Fish described in 2000 {{Callionymidae-stub