Dactylanthias

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Dactylanthias
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Anthiadidae
Genus: Dactylanthias
Bleeker, 1871
Type species
Anthias aplodactylus
Bleeker, 1858
Species

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Dactylanthias is a small genus of ray-finned fish belonging to the family Anthiadidae. It includes only two species from Ambon Island, Indonesia and the Tuamotus, French Polynesia.

Taxonomy

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Dactylanthias was first established by the Dutch ichthyologist Pieter Bleeker in 1871.[1]

Description

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Dactylanthias was known only from a single specimen of Dactylanthias aplodactylus from Ambon Island, Indonesia,[2] until another species was described in 2007 from the Tuamotus of French Polynesia.[3][4]

Species

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The following species are classified under Dactylanthias:[1]

References

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