Plectranthias nazcae
Plectranthias nazcae Anderson, 2008
First described in: Anderson, W.D. Jr. (2008). A new species of the perciform fish genus Plectranthias (Serranidae: Anthiinae) from the Nazca Ridge in the eastern South Pacific. Proc. Biol. Soc. of Wash., 121(4): 429-437.
Plectranthias nazcae, the red splodge, is a species of fish in the family Serranidae occurring in the southern Pacific Ocean.
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
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Holotype: USNM 312926, 115 mm SL. Type locality: eastern South Pacific near SW end of Nazca Ridge – 25 ° 43 ’ S, 85 ° 22 ’ W in 185 to 200 meters. Illustrations: Anderson, 2008, figs. 1 & 2; Anderson & Heemstra, 2012, fig. 9. D: X, 16. A: III, 7. P: 16 or 17. C: 17 (9 + 8). V: 26 (10 + 16). S: 3. GR: 28 to 31 (7 to 10 + 19 to 22). LL: 36 to 42. CP: 17 or 18.
Annotated checklist of anthiadine fishes (Percoidei: Serranidae)
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 5961814.