Two New Records of Anthiine Fishes Genus Plectranthias (Perciformes: Serranidae) From Indonesia

Abstract

Three specimens of Plectranthias retrofasciatus Fourmanoir and Randall, 1979 and one specimen of P. randalli Fourmanoir and Rivaton, 1980 were collected by first author from fish market, Bitung, North Sulawesi on June and September 2010. The specimens were deposited at LBRC-F, the reference collection of LIPI Bitung, Technical Implementation Unit for Marine Biota Conservation, Research Centre for Oceanography, Indonesian Institute of Sciences, Bitung, Indonesia. Plectranthias retrofasciatus is closely related to P. megalophthalmus and P. knappi, in sharing some morphological characters as snout length and interorbital width, while P. randalli differs to other species by having a moderate deep body proportion. Initially these species known only from New Caledonia for P. retrofasciatus and Chesterfield Islands and southern Taiwan for P. randalli respectively. The two species of anthiine fishes collected from Bitung, Indonesia bringing the total number of species of this genus known in Indonesia to six.

Plectranthias ahiahiata, a new species of perchlet from a mesophotic ecosystem at Rapa Nui (Easter Island) (Teleostei, Serranidae, Anthiadinae)

“…Published morphometric and meristic data from the known eastern Pacific species, Plectranthiasexsul (Anderson and Baldwin 2002), P.nazcae (Anderson 2008) and P.parini (Anderson and Randall 1991); the Atlantic species P.garrupellus Anderson and Heemstra 2012; the Western Pacific species P.anthiodes Gunther 1872, P.bennetti , P.elongatus Wu, Randall and Chen 2011, P.flammeus, P.fourmanoiri , P.jothyi Randall 1996, P.kamii, P. inermis Randall 1980, P.randalli , P.sheni Chen and Shao 2002, P.taylori Randall 1980, and P.xanthomaculatus Wu, Randall and Chen 2011 (Yoshino 1972; Randall 1980; Randall 1996; Wu et al 2011; Williams et al 2013; Peristiwady et al 2014; Allen and Walsh 2015; Tashiro and Motomura 2017); the Japanese species, P altipinnatus Katayama and Masuda 1980, P.takasei Gill, Tea and Senou 2016, and P.yamakawai Yoshino, 1972; and the Arabian species, P.alcocki Bineesh, Akhilesh, Gopalakrishnan and Jena 2014. Specimens of P.japonicus (CAS33555), P.sagamiensis (CAS235596), and P.winniensis (CAS19169).…”