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''Odontanthias'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fish in the family (biology), family Anthiadidae. Depending on the exact species, they reach up to in standard length, and are brightly marked with pink and yellow. They are found at rocky reefs in deep water, mainly below .Anderson, W.D.Jr. & García-Moliner, G. (2012): A new species of ''Odontanthias'' Bleeker (Perciformes: Serranidae: Anthiinae) from Mona Passage off Puerto Rico, the first record of the genus from the Atlantic Ocean. ''aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology, 18 (1): 25-30.''White, W.T. (2011)
''Odontanthias randalli'' n. sp., a new anthiine fish (Serranidae: Anthiinae) from Indonesia.
''Zootaxa, 3015: 21–28.''
The genus is almost entirely restricted to the Indo-Pacific; ''O. cauoh'' of the Saint Peter and Saint Paul Archipelago and ''O. hensleyi'' of the Caribbean Sea, Caribbean are the only species known from outside the Indo-PacificCarvalho-Filho, A., Macena, B.C.L. & Nunes, D.M. (2016): A new species of Anthiadinae (Teleostei: Serranidae) from São Pedro and São Paulo Archipelago, Brazil, Equatorial Atlantic. ''Zootaxa, 4139 (4): 585–592.'' and evidence indicates that the latter belongs in ''Anthias (genus), Anthias''.William D. Anderson, Jr., Carole C. Baldwin, Alfredo Carvalho-Filho and Teodoro Vaske Júnior (2017). Redescription of the Jeweled Gemfish, Anthias asperilinguis (Serranidae: Anthiadinae), with comments on its ontogeny, phylogeny, and ecology. Aqua 23(3): 73-95.


Species

There are currently 16 recognized species in this genus: * ''Odontanthias borbonius'' (Achille Valenciennes, Valenciennes, 1828) (Checked swallowtail) * ''Odontanthias caudicinctus'' (Phillip C. Heemstra, Heemstra & John Ernest Randall, J. E. Randall, 1986) * ''Odontanthias cauoh'' Alfredo Carvalho-Filho, Carvalho-Filho, Bruno César Luz Macena Rocha, Macena & Diogo Martins Nunes, Nunes, 2016 (Red jewelfish) * ''Odontanthias chrysostictus'' (Albert Günther, Günther, 1872) * ''Odontanthias dorsomaculatus'' Masao Katayama, M. Katayama & Eiichi Yamamoto (biologist), Yamamoto, 1986 * ''Odontanthias elizabethae'' Henry Weed Fowler, Fowler, 1923 * ''Odontanthias flagris'' Tetsuo Yoshino, Yoshino & Chūichi Araga, Araga, 1975 * ''Odontanthias fuscipinnis'' (Oliver Peebles Jenkins, O. P. Jenkins, 1901) (Hawaiian jewelfish) * ''Odontanthias grahami'' John Ernest Randall, J. E. Randall & Phillip C. Heemstra, Heemstra, 2006 (Graham's swallowtail) * ''Odontanthias hensleyi'' William Dewey Anderson Jr., W. D. Anderson & Graciela García-Moliner, García-Moliner, 2012 * ''Odontanthias katayamai'' (John Ernest Randall, J. E. Randall, André Louis Maugé, Maugé & Yves B. Plessis, Plessis, 1979) * ''Odontanthias randalli'' William Toby White, W. T. White, 2011 (Lombok swallowtail) * ''Odontanthias rhodopeplus'' (Albert Günther, Günther, 1872) * ''Odontanthias tapui'' (John Ernest Randall, J. E. Randall, André Louis Maugé, Maugé & Yves B. Plessis, Plessis, 1979) * ''Odontanthias unimaculatus'' (Shigeho Tanaka, S. Tanaka (I), 1917) * ''Odontanthias wassi'' John Ernest Randall, J. E. Randall & Phillip C. Heemstra, Heemstra, 2006


References

Anthiadidae Perciformes genera Taxa named by Pieter Bleeker {{Anthiadidae-stub