Paraplesiops
| Paraplesiops | |
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| Paraplesiops bleekeri | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Plesiopidae |
| Genus: | Paraplesiops Bleeker, 1875 |
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Paraplesiops is a genus containing five largely allopatric species of fishes in the longfin, or roundhead, family Plesiopidae, commonly known as blue devils, bluedevils or blue devilfish because of their colouration. The genus is most similar to the tropical genera Plesiops and Fraudella. It is restricted to subtropical and temperate rocky and coral reefs in Australian waters. Its species are mostly cryptic, occurring in submarine caves, crevices and under rocky ledges.[1]
Species
- P. alisonae Hoese and Kuiter, 1984, Alison’s blue devil[1]
- P. bleekeri (Günther, 1861), eastern blue devil[1]
- P. meleagris (Peters, 1869), southern blue devil[1]
- P. poweri Ogilby, 1908, northern blue devil[1]
- P. sinclairi Hutchins, 1987, western blue devil[2]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 Hoese, Douglass F. & Kuiter, Rudie H. (1984). "A revision of the Australian plesiopid fish genus Paraplesiops, with notes on other Australian genera." (PDF). Records of the Australian Museum. 36 (1): 7–18. doi:10.3853/j.0067-1975.36.1984.322.
- ↑ Hutchins, J.B. (1987). "Description of a new plesiopid fish from south-western Australia, with a discussion of zoogeography of Paraplesiops.". Records of the Western Australian Museum. 13 (2): 231–240.
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