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Plectranthias pelicieri
Plectranthias pelicieri Randall & Shimizu, 1994
Also calledオシャレハナダイ (jpn)
First described in: Randall, J. E.; Shimizu, T. (1994). Plectranthias pelicieri, a new anthiine fish (Perciformes: Serranidae) from Mauritius, with notes on P. gardineri. <em>Japanese Journal of Ichthyology.</em> 41 (2): 109-115.
Plectranthias pelicieri is a species of fish in the family Serranidae occurring in the Indian Ocean.
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
distribution
Distribution: southwestern Indian Ocean: South Africa, Mauritius; western Pacific: Izu Islands and Ryukyu Islands to New Caledonia.
Annotated checklist of anthiadine fishes (Percoidei: Serranidae)
materials_examined
Holotype: BPBM 34646, 40.2 mm SL, male. Type locality: Mauritius. Illustrations: Heemstra & Randall, 2009: 14 (fig. 11), 17 (pl. 1 F & G); Kuiter, 2004: 110 & 111, figs. A – F; Randall & Shimizu, 1994: 110 & 111, figs. 1 & 2. D: X, 15 to 17. A: III, 7 or 8. P: 13 or 14. C: 17 (9 + 8). V: 26 (10 + 16). S: 3. GR: 4 to 6 + 11 or 12. LL: 28 to 30. CP: 14.
Annotated checklist of anthiadine fishes (Percoidei: Serranidae)
From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
In human culture
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.
== References ==
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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In the stacks
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Every page naming Plectranthias pelicieri in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2388031.