Plectranthias bennetti | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Perciformes |
Family: | Serranidae |
Genus: | Plectranthias |
Species: | P. bennetti |
Binomial name | |
Plectranthias bennetti G. R. Allen & F. M. Walsh, 2015 | |
Plectranthias bennetti, or Bennett's perchlet, is a species of fish in the family Serranidae occurring in the western Pacific Ocean. [1]
This species reaches a length of 5.0 cm (2.0 in). [2]
The fish is named in honor of Timothy Bennett (b. 1960), an Australian diver and a marine aquarium-fish collector, who captured the holotype specimen. [3]
Peter Robert Last is an Australian ichthyologist, curator of the Australian National Fish Collection and a senior principal research scientist at CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research (CMAR) in Hobart, Tasmania. He is an elasmobranch expert and has described many new species of shark.
Tosanoides bennetti is a species of reef fish from the subfamily Anthiinae part of the family Serranidae, the groupers and sea basses, and is known only from the Coral Sea and can be found in depths of 141–150 meters. Tosanoides bennetti is one of six species that make up the genus Tosanoides.
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Plectranthias maugei is a species of fish in the family Serranidae occurring in the Western Indian Ocean.
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Plectranthias knappi is a species of fish in the family Serranidae occurring in the Western central Pacific Ocean.
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Plectranthias yamakawai is a species of fish in the family Serranidae occurring in the western Pacific Ocean.
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Plectranthias kelloggi, also known as eastern flower porgy, is a species of fish in the family Serranidae occurring in the western Pacific Ocean.
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Plectranthias parini, Parin's anthias, is a species of fish in the family Serranidae occurring in the south-eastern Pacific Ocean.