FB-70838 http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=70838 Animalia Chordata Teleostei Perciformes/Serranoidei Anthiadidae Plectranthias Plectranthias raki Shepherd, Pinheiro, Najeeb, Rocha & Rocha, 2025 Plectranthias ryukyuensis Wada, Suzuki, Senou & Motomura, 2020 2025-01-21 2025-01-21 Wada, H., T. Suzuki, H. Senou and H. Motomura 2020 (10 Jan.) [ref. 37270] See ref. online0 Plectranthias ryukyuensis, a new species of perchlet from the Ryukyu Islands, Japan, with a key to the Japanese species of Plectranthias (Serranidae: Anthiadinae). Ichthyol. Res. 67(2):294-307. (Ref. 132559) Tang, C.N. and W.J. Chen0 A 40-year taxonomic enigma: multigene phylogeny resolves the polyphyly of Plectranthias (Perciformes: Anthiadidae) and supports a revised taxonomy. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 205(3)[zlaf148]:1-36 (Ref. 138265) FB-DiagnosticDescr-70847 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Estelita Emily Capuli 2025-01-21 00:00:00 2025-01-21 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=70847 This species is distinguished from its congeners by the following set of characters: D X,15-16; pectoral-fin rays 14, all unbranched; lateral line complete, with 29 or 30 pored scales; scale rows above lateral line 3; diagonal rows of large scales on cheek between eye and corner of preopercle 5 or 6; preopercle with two antrorse spines on the ventral margin, 20-29 serrae on posterior margin; margins of subopercle and interopercle have a few serrae (weak in large individuals); minute flaps at tips of first to ninth dorsal-fin spines; caudal fin shallowly emarginate, some ray branches are distinctively elongated past fin margin; fourth dorsal-fin spine is the longest, its length 110.6-128.6% that of third spine. Colouration: body pinkish-white with two longitudinal rows of irregular orange-red blotches on the upper half of lateral surface when fresh (rows close together in smaller than ca. 5.0 cm SL), blotches interconnecting anteriorly on upper and lower rows, and posterior half of lower row; four faint orange-red vertical bands seen below lateral line on posterior half of body and two distinct yellow blotches on cheek in fresh specimens. body uniformly yellowish-brown with two longitudinal rows of irregular dark blotches on the upper half of lateral surface in preserved specimens (faint in small specimens) (Ref. 132559). Wada, H., T. Suzuki, H. Senou and H. Motomura 2020 (10 Jan.) [ref. 37270] See ref. online 2020 Plectranthias ryukyuensis, a new species of perchlet from the Ryukyu Islands, Japan, with a key to the Japanese species of Plectranthias (Serranidae: Anthiadinae). Ichthyol. Res. 67(2):294-307. (Ref. 132559) FB-Morphology-70847 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Estelita Emily Capuli 2025-01-21 00:00:00 2025-01-21 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=70847 Dorsal spines (total): 10; Dorsal soft rays (total): 1516 Wada, H., T. Suzuki, H. Senou and H. Motomura 2020 (10 Jan.) [ref. 37270] See ref. online 2020 Plectranthias ryukyuensis, a new species of perchlet from the Ryukyu Islands, Japan, with a key to the Japanese species of Plectranthias (Serranidae: Anthiadinae). Ichthyol. Res. 67(2):294-307. (Ref. 132559) FB-Distribution-70847 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Estelita Emily Capuli 2025-01-21 00:00:00 2025-01-21 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=70847 Northwest Pacific: Japan (Ryukyu Is.), Wada, H., T. Suzuki, H. Senou and H. Motomura 2020 (10 Jan.) [ref. 37270] See ref. online 2020 Plectranthias ryukyuensis, a new species of perchlet from the Ryukyu Islands, Japan, with a key to the Japanese species of Plectranthias (Serranidae: Anthiadinae). Ichthyol. Res. 67(2):294-307. (Ref. 132559) FB-Uses-70847 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Estelita Emily Capuli 2025-01-21 00:00:00 2025-11-20 00:00:00 Importance http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=70847 fisheries: of no interest FB-Threats-2 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Belen Acosta 1990-10-18 00:00:00 2024-03-07 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=2 Least Concern (LC) , IUCN Grouper and Wrasse Specialist Group IUCN 2006 2006 IUCN red list of threatened species. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded July 2006. FB-Habitat-70847 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Estelita Emily Capuli 2025-01-21 00:00:00 2025-11-20 00:00:00 Environment http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=70847 demersal; marine