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Choranthias tenuis

Description

Choranthias tenuis (Nichols, 1920)

Anthias tenuis Nichols, 1920

Holotype: AMNH 7310, 68 mm SL.

Type locality: off Bermuda. Illustrations: Anderson & Heemstra, 2012, fig. 15; Bullock & Smith, 1991, pl. I, fig. B. Kuiter, 2004:17.

D: X, 14 or 15 (almost always 15; very rarely with IX spines). A: III, 7 to 9 (usually 8). P: 19 to 21 (usually 20). C: 15 (8+ 7). V: 26 (10 + 16). S: 2. GR: 34 to 39, usually 35 to 37 (9 to 11 + 24 to 28). LL: 51 to 57 (usually 52 to 56). CP: 25 to 28.

Distribution: known from the western Atlantic off Bermuda and North Carolina, 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 page 12, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4475.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1453283

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Serranidae
Genus
Choranthias
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Perciformes
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Nichols
Species
tenuis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Choranthias tenuis (Nichols, 1920) sec. Anderson, 2018

References

  • Nichols, J. T. (1920) A contribution to the ichthyology of Bermuda. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 33, 59 - 64.
  • 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.