New species of the anthiadin genus Sacura (Perciformes: Serranidae) from the Andaman Sea

Motomura, Hiroyuki; Yoshida, Takemi; Vilasri, Veera

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4306.2.10

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“…Material examined: SAIAB 203717, 151 mm SL, SAIAB 203728, 192 mm SL, off Tanintharyi coast, Myanmar, Andaman Sea, Indian Ocean (13°55.22' N, 95°42.27' E), 173-176 m, R/V Dr. Fridtjof Nansen, stn 90, bottom trawl, 14 May 2015, collected by P. N. Psomadakis Sacura sanguinea Motomura, Yoshida & Vilasri Figure 8 Sacura sanguinea Motomura, Yoshida & Vilasri, 2017: 291, figs 1-2 (type locality: Andaman Sea, Thailand). Motomura et al (2017) described Sacura sanguinea from three specimens purchased at Pak Nam Ranong Fishing Port, Ranong Province, Thailand. The specimens apparently had been trawled from the Andaman Sea, but details on habitat, depth and precise locality are lacking.…”

Section: Odontanthias Rhodopeplus Günthermentioning

confidence: 99%

Pseudanthias emma new species, with notes on a collection of anthiadine serranid fishes from off Myanmar (eastern Indian Ocean)

Gill

Psomadakis

2018

Zootaxa

834

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Recent exploratory trawling off the coast of Myanmar by the R/V Dr Fridtjof Nansen has resulted in the collection of six species of anthiadine serranid fishes. Four of the species are represented by specimen vouchers: Pseudanthias emma sp. nov., P. gibbosus (Klunzinger), Odontanthias rhodopeplus (Günther) and Plectranthias sp. 1. The remaining two species are represented only by photographs: Plectranthias sp. 2 and Sacura sanguinea Motomura, Yoshida & Vilasri. Pseudanthias emma is described from the 107 mm SL holotype. It is distinguished from congeners in having the following combination of characters: dorsal rays X,16; pectoral rays 18; lateral-line scales 42; third dorsal-fin spine longest, prolonged; no papillae on posterior margin of orbit; soft part of dorsal with low scaly sheath; subopercle and interopercle indistinctly serrated; caudal fin weakly concave centrally, with elongate filaments extending from second to uppermost and second to lowermost branched rays. Plectranthias sp. 1 is a probable new species closely allied to P. sagamiensis (Katayama), from which it appears to differ in having fewer segmented dorsal rays and fewer rows of cheek scales. Plectranthias sp. 2 is a probable new species closely allied to P. alcocki Bineesh, Akhilesh, Gopalakrishnan & Jena, from which it appears to differ in lacking a large black spot on the operculum and dusky ventral spot on the abdomen. New character, habitat and distribution information is provided for all six species. Pseudanthias vizagensis Krishna, Rao & Venu is suggested as a probable junior synonym of P. pillai Heemstra & Akhilesh.

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Section: Odontanthias Rhodopeplus Günthermentioning

confidence: 99%

Pseudanthias emma new species, with notes on a collection of anthiadine serranid fishes from off Myanmar (eastern Indian Ocean)

Gill

Psomadakis

2018

Zootaxa

834

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“…While the genus comprises five species distributed throughout the Indo‐Pacific, only the shallow‐dwelling cherry anthias S. margaritacea (Hilgendorf 1879) is regularly encountered (Suzuki et al ., 1973). The remaining four species are primarily known from scattered fisheries records (Heemstra & Randall, 1979; Motomura et al ., 2017). Boulenger's anthias S. boulengeri is known from only a few records reported from Oman (Heemstra & Randall, 1979), Pakistan (Moazzam & Osmany, 2004) and India (Thomas et al ., 2008) (Figure 1).…”

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