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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›orderPerciformes
  4. ›familySerranidae
  5. ›genusPseudanthias
Pseudanthias sheni
Figure 4. a) Jack Randall preserving the fresh colors of a new discovery through photography, on board the Kimberly Expl Myers, Pyle, Donaldson, 2023 (CC BY 4.0) · Plazi / Biodiversity Literature Repository. Found by name on iNaturalist, Wikimedia Commons and in the open-access papers that described the species (Plazi); click a picture for its credit and licence.
IUCN LC · Least concern

Shen's Basslet

Pseudanthias sheni Randall & Allen, 1989

Also calledAnthias lavande (fra) · Anthias violeta (cat) · Anthias-lavanda (por) · bradáč Shenův (ces) · 沈氏擬花鮨 (zho)

First described in: Randall, J. E.; Allen, G. R. (1989). <i>Pseudanthias sheni</i>, a new serranid fish from Rowley Shoals and Scott Reef, Western Australia. <em>Rev. Fr. Aquariol.</em> 15(3): 73-78.

Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF

distribution

Distribution: eastern Indian Ocean: offshore reefs of northern Western Australia.

Annotated checklist of anthiadine fishes (Percoidei: Serranidae)

materials_examined

Holotype: WAM P. 29660 – 001, 96.0 mm SL, male. Type locality: base of drop-off, northeast end of Mermaid Reef, Rowley Shoals, Western Australia (17 ° 02 ' S, 119 ° 38 ' E), depth 46 meters. Illustrations: Randall & Allen, 1989: 73 (fig. 1), 74 (figs. 2 & 3), 77 (figs. 4 & 5). D: X, 17 or 18. A: III, 7. P: 17 to 19. C: 15. V: 26 (10 + 16). S: 3. GR: 10 to 12 + 25 to 28. LL: 45 to 49. CP: 26 to 28.

Annotated checklist of anthiadine fishes (Percoidei: Serranidae)

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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2387641.