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Pelontrus raki

Pelontrus raki (Shepherd, Pinheiro, Najeeb, Rocha & Rocha, 2025)

This species is in the Catalogue of Life but not yet in the 2023 GBIF backbone or on iNaturalist: most likely it was described, or split from another species, very recently. What is known so far is below.

Also published as
Plectranthias raki Shepherd, Pinheiro, Najeeb, Rocha & Rocha, 2025
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Where it has been recorded

Recorded sightings

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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

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References

  • Shepherd, B., Pinheiro, H. T., Najeeb, A., Rocha, C. R., & Rocha, L. A. (2025). Plectranthias raki (Teleostei, Serranidae), a new species of perchlet from mesophotic coral ecosystems of the Maldives. ZooKeys, 1223: 333–344. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1223.135292

From the Catalogue of Life (catalogueoflife.org), compiled from its specialist databases; CC BY 4.0. This name in the Catalogue of Life.