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purple wreckfish
Pseudanthias evansi (Smith, 1954)
Mirolabrichthys evansi, the yellowback anthias, is a marine ray-finned fish in the family Anthiadidae. It is native to the Indian Ocean, and may be found in the aquarium trade.
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
distribution
Distribution: Indian Ocean: east Africa and Mascarenes to Cocos – Keeling and Christmas islands, north to Andaman Sea and western Sumatra.
Annotated checklist of anthiadine fishes (Percoidei: Serranidae)
materials_examined
Holotype: SAIAB 125, 113 mm TL. Type locality: off Shimoni, Kenya, western Indian Ocean. Illustrations: Heemstra & Akhilesh, 2012: 141, figs. 21 & 22; Kuiter, 2004: 79, figs. A – F. D: X, 16 to 18. A: III, 8 or 9. P: 16 to 18. C: 15. V: 25 or usually 26 (10 + 15 or 10 + 16). S: 3. GR: 9 to 11 + 22 to 26. LL: 47 to 50. CP: 25 to 28.
Annotated checklist of anthiadine fishes (Percoidei: Serranidae)
Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
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Every page naming Pseudanthias evansi in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2387663.