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Plectranthias bennetti Allen & Walsh, 2015

Bennett’s perchlet
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Teleostei (teleosts) > Perciformes/Serranoidei (Groupers) > Anthiadidae (Fairy basslets or Streamer basses)
Etymology: Plectranthias: Greek, plektron = anyhting to strike with, spur + Greek, anthias = a fish, Sparus aurata (Ref. 45335);  bennetti: Named for Timothy Bennett, a marine aquarium-fish collector who captured the holotype..

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Marine; reef-associated; depth range 40 - 125 m (Ref. 123579). Tropical; 22°C - 27°C (Ref. 130625)

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Western Pacific: Australia.

Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 5.5 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 123579)

Short description Identification keys | Morphology | Morphometrics

Dorsal spines (total): 10; Dorsal soft rays (total): 15; Anal spines: 3; Anal soft rays: 7; Vertebrae: 26. This species is distinguished by the following characters: D X,15; pectoral-fin rays 13, all are unbranched; lateral line complete, tubed scales 29-30; scales dorsally on head extending to the anterior portion of interorbital, but well short of level of posterior nostrils; maxilla or chin scaleless; body depth 2.6 in SL; posterior margin of preopercle with 20 tiny serrae; ventral margin of preopercle with 3 antrorse spines; fourth dorsal spine longest, 2.4 in HL; caudal fin is slightly emarginated; prominent bands in life entirely pale in alcohol (116682).

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Collected by handnet from the ceiling of a cave at a depth of 63 m (Ref. 116682). Included in the aquarium trade (Japan and through Singapore (Ref. 123579).

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Allen, G.R. and F. Walsh, 2015. Plectranthias bennetti, a new species of anthiine fish (Pisces: Serranidae) from the Coral Sea, Australia. J. Ocean Sci. Found. 16:82-89. (Ref. 116682)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

  Not Evaluated 

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





Human uses

Fisheries: commercial; aquarium: commercial
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AFORO (otoliths) | Aquatic Commons | BHL | Cloffa | BOLDSystems | Websites from users | Check FishWatcher | CISTI | Catalog of Fishes: genus, species | DiscoverLife | ECOTOX | FAO - Publication: search | Faunafri | Fishipedia | Fishtrace | GenBank: genome, nucleotide | GloBI | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | IGFA World Record | MitoFish | Otolith Atlas of Taiwan Fishes | PubMed | Reef Life Survey | Socotra Atlas | Tree of Life | Wikipedia: Go, Search | World Records Freshwater Fishing | Zoobank | Zoological Record

Estimates based on models

Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804):  PD50 = 0.5000   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Trophic level (Ref. 69278):  3.6   ±0.6 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives
Resilience (Ref. 120179):  High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153):  Low vulnerability (10 of 100).