''Bathyanthias'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...

of marine

ray-finned fish Actinopterygii (; ), members of which are known as ray-finned fishes, is a class of bony fish. They comprise over 50% of living vertebrate species. The ray-finned fishes are so called because their fins are webs of skin supported by bony or h ...

, related to the

grouper Groupers are fish of any of a number of genera in the subfamily Epinephelinae of the family Serranidae, in the order Perciformes. Not all serranids are called "groupers"; the family also includes the sea basses. The common name "grouper" is ...

s and included in the subfamily

Epinephelinae Groupers are fish of any of a number of genera in the subfamily Epinephelinae of the family Serranidae, in the order Perciformes. Not all serranids are called "groupers"; the family also includes the sea basses. The common name "grouper" is ...

, part of the

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Serranidae The Serranidae are a large family of fishes belonging to the order Perciformes. The family contains about 450 species in 65 genera, including the sea basses and the groupers (subfamily Epinephelinae). Although many species are small, in some ca ...

, which also includes the anthias and sea basses. They are found in the Western Atlantic Ocean.

Species

There are three species currently recognised in the genus ''Bathyanthias'': * '' Bathyanthias cubensis'' ( Schultz, 1958) * '' Bathyanthias mexicanus'' Schultz, 1958 (Yellowtail bass) * '' Bathyanthias roseus'' Günther, 1880 A fourth valid species, ''Bathyanthias atlanticus'', Schultz, 1958 is listed by some authorities but is not accepted by Fishbase.

Taxonomy

''Bathyanthias'' was created by the British-German

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Albert Günther Albert Karl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther FRS, also Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf Günther (3 October 1830 – 1 February 1914), was a German-born British zoologist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist. Günther is ranked the second-most productive re ...

(1830–1914) as a

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genus with ''B. roseus'' as its only species and with a type locality given as being off

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in Brazil and the type was collected on the ''Challenger'' Expedition of 1872–1876.

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studies have suggested that the western Atlantic species within the

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Liopropomini, including the genus ''Bathyanthias'', form a monophyletic group with respect to the Indo-Pacific species currently classified as being within the genus ''

Liopropoma ''Liopropoma'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fish, related to the groupers and included in the subfamily Epinephelinae, part of the family Serranidae, which also includes the anthias and sea basses. They are sometimes seen in the marine aqu ...

''. This further suggests that ''Bathyanthias'' is nested within ''Liopropoma'', these studies indicate that more research is needed into the limits of the genus ''Liopropoma''.

References

{{taxonbar, from = Q965332 Liopropomini Ray-finned fish genera Taxa named by Albert Günther