''Odontanthias'' is a

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of marine

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in the

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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 ...

. Depending on the exact species, they reach up to in

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, and are brightly marked with pink and yellow. They are found at rocky

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s 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

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; ''O. cauoh'' of the

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and ''O. hensleyi'' of the

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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 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 ...

''.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'' (

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, 1828) (Checked swallowtail) * '' Odontanthias caudicinctus'' ( Heemstra & J. E. Randall, 1986) * '' Odontanthias cauoh'' Carvalho-Filho, Macena & Nunes, 2016 (Red jewelfish) * '' Odontanthias chrysostictus'' ( Günther, 1872) * '' Odontanthias dorsomaculatus'' M. Katayama & Yamamoto, 1986 * '' Odontanthias elizabethae'' Fowler, 1923 * '' Odontanthias flagris'' Yoshino & Araga, 1975 * '' Odontanthias fuscipinnis'' ( O. P. Jenkins, 1901) (Hawaiian jewelfish) * '' Odontanthias grahami'' J. E. Randall & Heemstra, 2006 (Graham's swallowtail) * '' Odontanthias hensleyi'' W. D. Anderson & García-Moliner, 2012 * '' Odontanthias katayamai'' ( J. E. Randall, Maugé &

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, 1979) * '' Odontanthias randalli'' W. T. White, 2011 (Lombok swallowtail) * '' Odontanthias rhodopeplus'' ( Günther, 1872) * '' Odontanthias tapui'' ( J. E. Randall, Maugé &

, 1979) * '' Odontanthias unimaculatus'' ( S. Tanaka (I), 1917) * '' Odontanthias wassi'' J. E. Randall & Heemstra, 2006

References

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