Pseudanthias huchtii (Bleeker 1857)

Andréfouët, Serge, Chen, Wei-Jen, Kinch, Jeff, Mana, Ralph, Russell, Barry C., Tully, Dean & White, William T., 2019, Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records, Zootaxa 4588 (1), pp. 1-360 : 124

Pseudanthias huchtii (Bleeker 1857) —Threadfin anthias ( Fig. 57 )

Status at New Ireland. New record, based on a specimen photographed at Lissenung Island, Kavieng District at 20 m depth by Dean Tully on 28 June 2013; a video of a specimen taken at Nubilus Island , off eastern New Hanover , 3–25 m depth, St. KR 90, in 2014 (identified by Barry C. Russell).

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2.—General distribution: Eastern Indonesia east to Palau and Solomon Islands, north to Philippines, south to Vanuatu. Lives in schools above coral outcrops, 1–20 m depth. Marine.

Figures

FIGURE 57. Pseudanthias huchtii (Bleeker 1857), Lissenung Island, Kavieng District, 20 m depth, 28 June 2013 (underwater photograph: Dean Tully).