Plectranthias parini

Plectranthias parini
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Anthiadidae
Genus: Plectranthias
Species:
P. parini
Binomial name
Plectranthias parini

Plectranthias parini, Parin's anthias, is a species of fish in the family Serranidae occurring in the south-eastern Pacific Ocean.[1][2]

Etymology

The fish is named in honor of ichthyologist Nikolai Vasil’evich Parin (1932-2012), of the Russian Academy of Sciences, who provided the holotype specimen and a color transparency of it.[3]

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References

  1. ^ Anderson, W.D. Jr. and J.E. Randall, 1991. A new species of the anthiine genus Plectranthias (Pisces: Serranidae) from the Sala y Gómez ridge in the eastern south Pacific, with comments on P. exsul. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 104(2):335-343.
  2. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Plectranthias parini". FishBase. February 2015 version.
  3. ^ 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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