Plectranthias bennetti
Appearance
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Perciformes |
Family: | Serranidae |
Genus: | Plectranthias |
Species: | P. bennetti
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Binomial name | |
Plectranthias bennetti G. R. Allen & F. M. Walsh, 2015
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Plectranthias bennetti, or Bennett's perchlet, is a species of fish in the family Serranidae occurring in the western Pacific Ocean.[1]
Size
[edit]This species reaches a length of 5.0 cm (2.0 in).[2]
Etymology
[edit]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]
References
[edit]- ^ Allen, G.R. & Walsh, F. (2015): Plectranthias bennetti, a new species of anthiine fish (Pisces: Serranidae) from the Coral Sea, Australia. Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation, 16: 82–89.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2015). "Plectranthias bennetti" 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.