Plectranthias alcocki
Plectranthias alcocki, or Alcock's deep-reef basslet, is a species of fish in the family Serranidae occurring in the Western Indian Ocean.[1]
| Plectranthias alcocki | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Serranidae |
| Genus: | Plectranthias |
| Species: | P. alcocki |
| Binomial name | |
| Plectranthias alcocki Bineesh, Gopalakrishnan & Jena, 2014 | |
Size
This species reaches a length of 7.2 cm (2.8 in).[2]
Etymology
The fish is named in honor of physician-naturalist Alfred William Alcock (1859–1933), Superintendent of the Indian Museum in West Bengal, India, because of his contribution to the taxonomy of the deep-sea fauna of Indian seas.[3]
References
- Bineesh, K.K., Akhilesh, K.V., Gopalakrishnan, A. & Jena, J.K. (2014): Plectranthias alcocki, a new anthiine fish species (Perciformes: Serranidae) from the Arabian Sea, off southwest India. Zootaxa, 3785 (3): 490–496.
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2015). "Plectranthias alcocki" in FishBase. February 2015 version.
- Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order PERCIFORMES (part 4): Suborder SERRANOIDEI: Families SERRANIDAE and ANTHIADIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 30 March 2023.
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