Plectranthias pelicieri
Plectranthias pelicieri is a species of fish in the family Serranidae occurring in the Indian Ocean.[1]
| Plectranthias pelicieri | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Serranidae |
| Genus: | Plectranthias |
| Species: | P. pelicieri |
| Binomial name | |
| Plectranthias pelicieri J. E. Randall & Shimizu, 1994 | |
Size
This species reaches a length of 4.0 cm (1.6 in).[2]
Etymology
The fish is named in honor of Daniel Pelicier (1946-2018), an aquarium fish collector and exporter in Flic en Flac, which is a village in Mauritius, who was the one who collected all of the type specimens and provided one of the photographs the authors used in the description. [3]
References
- Randall, J.E. and T. Shimizu, 1994. Plectranthias pelicieri, a new anthiine fish (Perciformes: Serranidae) from Mauritius, with notes on P. gardineri. Jap. J. Ichthyol. 41(2):109-115.
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2015). "Plectranthias pelicieri" 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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