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Anthias nicholsi Firth 1933
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Description
Anthias nicholsi Firth, 1933
Holotype: USNM 92936, 143 mm SL.
Type locality: off Chesapeake Light Vessel, Virginia. Illustrations: Anderson & Heemstra, 2012, fig. 21; Bullock & Smith, 1991, pl. I, fig. A; Kuiter, 2004:17.
D: X, 14 or 15 (usually with 15 soft rays, rarely with XI spines). A: III, 6 to 8 (7 in ca. 95 % of specimens). P: 18 to 21 (most frequently 19). C: 15 (8+ 7). V: 26 (10 + 16). S: 2. GR: 39 to 44, usually 40 to 43 (11 to 13 + 27 to 31). LL: 31 to 34 (most frequently 32). CP: 17 or 18 (most frequently 18).
Distribution: western Atlantic from Nova Scotia to northeastern Brazil, including Gulf of Mexico and
Caribbean Sea.
Notes
Published as part of William D. Anderson, Jr., 2018, Annotated checklist of anthiadine fishes (Percoidei: Serranidae), pp. 1-62 in Zootaxa 4475 (1) on pages 8-9, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4475.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1453283
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Serranidae
- Genus
- Anthias
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Perciformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Firth
- Species
- nicholsi
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Anthias nicholsi Firth, 1933 sec. Anderson, 2018
References
- Firth, F. E. (1933) Anthias nicholsi, a new fish taken off Virginia in the deep-water trawl fishery. Copeia, 1933 (4), 158 - 160. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 1435548
- Anderson, W. D. Jr. & Heemstra, P. C. (2012) Review of Atlantic and eastern Pacific anthiine fishes (Teleostei: Perciformes: Serranidae), with descriptions of two new genera. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. 102 (2). American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, pp. i - xviii + 1 - 173, figs. 1 - 32, tables 1 - 8, maps 1 - 12.
- Bullock, L. H. & Smith, G. B. (1991) Seabasses (Pisces: Serranidae). Memoirs of the Hourglass Cruises, 8 (Part 2), 1 - 243, pls. I - XIX.
- Kuiter, R. H. (2004) Basslets, hamlets, and their relatives: A comprehensive guide to selected Serranidae and Plesiopidae. The Marine Fish Families Series. TMC Publishing, Chorleywood, 216 pp., many color figs.