Plectranthias pelicieri is a species of fish in the family Serranidae occurring in the Indian Ocean.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Anthiadidae |
| Genus: | Plectranthias |
| Species: | P. pelicieri
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| Binomial name | |
| Plectranthias pelicieri J. E. Randall & Shimizu, 1994
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Size
editThis species reaches a length of 4.0 cm (1.6 in).[3]
Etymology
editThe 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. [4]
References
edit- ^ Yahya, S., Carpenter, K.E., Borsa, P., Jiddawi, N., Obota, C. & Smith-Vaniz, W.F. (2018). "Plectranthias pelicieri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T117008764A117008898. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T117008764A117008898.en. Retrieved 24 December 2023.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Randall, J.E. and T. Shimizu, 1994. Plectranthias pelicieri, a new anthiine fish (Perciformes: Serranidae) from Mauritius, with notes on P. gardineri. Jap. J. Ichthyol. 41(2):109-115.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Plectranthias pelicieri". 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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