A new anthiine fish (Perciformes: Serranidae),Holanthias kingyo, from the Ryukyu Islands

First record of gorgeous swallowtail Meganthias natalensis, an anthiine fish (Acanthopterygii: Serranidae: Anthiinae) from Kenyan waters

“…The assumption of Randall & Heemstra (2006) is supported by the new record from approximately 150 m depth. Further evidence for a preference of Meganthias inhabiting depths of around 100 -200 m is provided by data available for some congeners: M. filiferus at 150 m depth (Randall & Heemstra, 2008); M. kingyo between 100 and 150 m depth (Kon et al, 2000); whereas for M. carpenteri and Meganthias sp. no data are available (Anderson, 2006).…”

“…Though only few photographs of the fresh individual exist (Figures 2 & 3), they allow examination of diagnostic characters as provided by various authors (Kon et al, 2000;Anderson, 2006;Randall & Heemstra, 2006, 2008Akhilesh et al, 2009).…”

“…Anthiines are often very colourful, but many species are rare and little known, which is probably related to their preference for deeper well structured reef and rocky habitats (Randall & Heemstra, 2008). Randall & Heemstra (2006) erected the genus Meganthias, currently with four recognized species: Meganthias carpenteri Anderson, 2006; M. filiferus Randall & Heemstra, 2008;M. kingyo (Kon, Yoshino & Sakurai, 2000); and M. natalensis (Fowler, 1925).…”

“…Recently three new species have been described and placed in the genus Meganthias: M. carpenteri based on two specimens caught off Nigeria in the eastern Atlantic (Anderson, 2006); M. filiferus from a single specimen collected in the Andaman Sea off south-western Thailand (Randall & Heemstra, 2008); and M. kingyo from two specimens from the Ryukyu Islands in the Western Pacific (Kon et al, 2000). Furthermore, Anderson (2006) reported a single specimen of Meganthias sp.…”

First record of Odontanthias unimaculatus (Tanaka 1917) (Perciformes: Serranidae) from Indonesia

“…Difficulties of catch, small fish size and little commercial value of the species (Chen and Shao 2002;Randall and Hoese 1995;Randall 1996;Heemstra 2006, 2007), anthinne fishes are not well represented in museum collections of which some species were described as new species based on a single or several specimens (Anderson 2006(Anderson , 2008Anderson and Baldwin 2002;Chen and Shao 2002;Kon et al 2000;Peristiwady et al 2010;Randall 1996;Randall and Pyle 2001;Heemstra 2006, 2007;William 2008;Wu et al 2011). The anthiine specimens in this studies were taken by hook and line by fishermen who targeting deep water groupers or snappers as Epinephelus, Pristipomoides and Etelis.…”