''Anthias'' is a genus of colourful
ray-finned fish
Actinopterygii (; ), members of which are known as ray-finned fish or actinopterygians, is a class of bony fish that comprise over 50% of living vertebrate species. They are so called because of their lightly built fins made of webbings of sk ...
es in the family
Anthiadidae
Anthias are members of the family Anthiadidae in the order Perciformes. The group has also been called Anthiidae or Anthiinae, but these names are preoccupied by a subfamily of ground beetles in the family Carabidae erected by Bonelli in 1813 ...
. Most species are found at deep reefs in the tropical and subtropical Atlantic, often well below depths reachable to a
scuba diver
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. A single species, ''A. noeli'', is found at deep reefs in the East Pacific.
They are red, pink, orange, or yellow, and the largest species reach in length.
[ They typically occur in groups that feed on ]zooplankton
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.
Species
In the past, this genus included far more species, but these have now been moved to other genera, for example ''Callanthias
''Callanthias'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the Family (biology), family Callanthiidae. These fishes are primarily found in subtropical parts of the Pacific Ocean, with one species marginally in the Indian Ocean and two sp ...
'', '' Odontanthias'', and '' Pseudanthias''. Based on FishBase
FishBase is a global species database of fish species (specifically finfish). It is the largest and most extensively accessed online database on adult finfish on the web. , these species are currently included in ''Anthias'':[
* '' Anthias anthias'' (]Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming o ...
, 1758
Events
January–March
* January 1 – Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus (Carl von Linné) publishes in Stockholm the first volume (''Animalia'') of the 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae'', the starting point of modern zoologic ...
) swallowtail sea perch
* '' Anthias asperilinguis'' Günther, 1859 jeweled gemfish
* '' Anthias cyprinoides'' (Katayama & Amaoka, 1986) Pagalu swallowtail
* '' Anthias helenensis'' Katayama & Amaoka, 1986 Saint Helena swallowtail
* '' Anthias menezesi'' Anderson & Heemstra, 1980
References
Taxa named by Marcus Elieser Bloch
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