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Dactylanthias

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Genus of ray-finned fishes

Dactylanthias
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Anthiadidae
Genus: Dactylanthias
Bleeker, 1871
Type species
Anthias aplodactylus
Bleeker, 1858
Species

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Dactylanthias is a small genus of ray-finned fish belonging to the family Anthiadidae. It includes only two species from Ambon Island, Indonesia and the Tuamotus, French Polynesia.

Taxonomy

Dactylanthias was first established by the Dutch ichthyologist Pieter Bleeker in 1871.

Description

Dactylanthias was known only from a single specimen of Dactylanthias aplodactylus from Ambon Island, Indonesia, until another species was described in 2007 from the Tuamotus of French Polynesia.

Species

The following species are classified under Dactylanthias:

References

  1. ^ Nicolas Bailly (2013). Bailly N (ed.). "Dactylanthias". FishBase. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved September 26, 2013.
  2. Cristina V. Garilao & Kathleen Kesner-Reyes. "Dactylanthias aplodactylus (Bleeker, 1858)". FishBase. Retrieved September 26, 2013.
  3. Estelita Emily Capuli & Nicolas Bailly. "Dactylanthias baccheti Randall, 2007". FishBase. Retrieved September 26, 2013.
  4. J.E. Randall (2007). "Dactylanthias baccheti, a new species of anthiine fish (Perciformes: Serranidae) from the Tuamotu Archipelago". Aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology. 12 (2): 83–88.
Taxon identifiers
Dactylanthias


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