Plectranthias longimanus

Figures 3 A, 5 B, 31 – 32; Tables 1 – 16, 24

Sumber: Review of Australian species of Plectranthias Bleeker and Selenanthias Tanaka (Teleostei: Serranidae: Anthiadinae), with descriptions of four new species

We add the following new observations: scales with peripheral cteni; vertebrae 10 + 16, rarely 10 + 17; supraneurals 2; predorsal formula 0 / 0 / 2 / 1 + 1; dorsal pterygiophores in interneural spaces 9 – 13 1 / 1 / 1 + 1 / 1 + 1 / 1; no trisegmental pterygiophores associated with dorsal fin; terminal dorsal pterygiophore in interneural space 17; no trisegmental pterygiophores associated with anal fin; terminal anal pterygiophore in interhaemal space 5; ribs present on vertebrae 3 through 9 – 10; epineurals present on vertebrae 1 through 8 – 10; hypurals 1 and 2 represented by undifferentiated plate, other hypurals and parhypural autogenous (Figure 5 B); well-developed hypurapophysis on parhypural; epurals 3; single uroneural (posterior uroneural absent); ventral tip of cleithrum with well-developed posteroventral process; proximal tip of first anal-fin pterygiophore near distal tips of parapophyses on vertebra 10. Morphometric data are summarised in Table 24.

Sumber: Review of Australian species of Plectranthias Bleeker and Selenanthias Tanaka (Teleostei: Serranidae: Anthiadinae), with descriptions of four new species

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2. — General distribution: East Africa east to Fiji, north to southern Japan and Ogasawara Islands, south to Queensland (Australia) and New Caledonia. Solitary in coastal, lagoon and seaward coral reefs, 6 – 75 m depth. Marine.