Plectranthias morgansi, the flagfin, is a species of fish in the family Serranidae occurring in the western Indian Ocean.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Serranidae |
| Genus: | Plectranthias |
| Species: | P. morgansi
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| Plectranthias morgansi (J. L. B. Smith, 1961)
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Size
editThis species reaches a length of 5.0 cm (2.0 in).[3]
Etymology
editThe fish is named in honor of John Frederick Croil Morgans, a research assistant in the Zoology Department of the University of Cape Town in South Africa, who sent the type specimen to Smith.[4]
References
edit- ^ Obota, C., Borsa, P., Carpenter, K.E., Jiddawi, N., Smith-Vaniz, W.F. & Yahya, S. (2018). "Plectranthias morgansi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T117008727A117008893. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T117008727A117008893.en. Retrieved 24 December 2023.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Heemstra, P.C. and J.E. Randall, 1986. Serranidae. p. 509-537. In M.M. Smith and P.C. Heemstra (eds.) Smiths' sea fishes. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Plectranthias morgansi". 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.
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