Odontanthias

Odontanthias is a genus of marine ray-finned fish in the subfamily Anthiinae and family Serranidae. Depending on the exact species, they reach up to 10–22 cm (3.9–8.7 in) in standard length, and are brightly marked with pink and yellow. They are found at rocky reefs in deep water, mainly below 100 m (330 ft).[2][3][4] 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 are the only species known from outside the Indo-Pacific[3][5] and evidence indicates that the latter belongs in Anthias.[6]

Odontanthias
Odontanthias borbonius
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Perciformes
Family:	Serranidae
Subfamily:	Anthiinae
Genus:	Odontanthias Bleeker, 1873
Type species
Serranus borbonius Valenciennes, 1828[1]

Species

There are currently 16 recognized species in this genus:[2]

• Odontanthias borbonius (Valenciennes, 1828) (Checked swallowtail)
• Odontanthias caudicinctus (Heemstra & J. E. Randall, 1986) (Black-blotch swallowtail)
• 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
• Odontanthias hensleyi W. D. Anderson & García-Moliner, 2012
• Odontanthias katayamai (J. E. Randall, Maugé & Plessis, 1979)
• Odontanthias randalli W. T. White, 2011 (Lombok swallowtail)
• Odontanthias rhodopeplus (Günther, 1872)
• Odontanthias tapui (J. E. Randall, Maugé & Plessis, 1979)
• Odontanthias unimaculatus (S. Tanaka (I), 1917)
• Odontanthias wassi J. E. Randall & Heemstra, 2006

References

1. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Odontanthias". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2016). Species of Odontanthias in FishBase. January 2016 version.
3. 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.
4. White, W.T. (2011): Odontanthias randalli n. sp., a new anthiine fish (Serranidae: Anthiinae) from Indonesia. Zootaxa, 3015: 21–28.
5. Carvalho-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.
6. 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.