The dara (Parakuhlia macrophthalmus) is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a grunt belonging to the family Haemulidae.

The jaws are equipped with many bands made up of villiform teeth which are also on the vomer but there are no teeth on the palate There is a single dorsal fin but it has a deep notch between the spiny portion and the soft-rayed portion.

[2] The dara is found in the eastern Atlantic Ocean along the western coast of Africa from Senegal in the north to Angola in the south, it is commonest in the Gulf of Guinea.

[4] In 1913 the French zoologist Jacques Pellegrin (1873-1944) described a new species and placed it in the new genus Parakuhlia, giving it the specific name boulengeri.

Pellegrin's taxon was later shown to be a junior synonym of Osório's Haemulon macropthalmus.