Classification / Names
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Anthiadidae (Fairy basslets or Streamer basses)
Etymology: Odontanthias: Greek, odous = teeth + Greek, anthis = a fish, Sparus aurata (Ref. 45335); grahami: Named for Ken J. Graham who collected the holotype.
Eponymy: Kenneth ‘Ken’ John Graham (d: 1947), originally from New Zealand, spent his career as an ichthyologist, biologist and fisheries research scientist in Australia. [...] (Ref. 128868), visit book page.
More on authors: Randall & Heemstra.
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecology
Marine; benthopelagic; depth range ? - 130 m (Ref. 57080). Subtropical
Southwest Pacific: Australia.
Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 9.4 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 57080)
Short description
Identification keys | Morphology | Morphometrics
Dorsal spines (total): 10; Dorsal soft rays (total): 14; Anal spines: 3; Anal soft rays: 7; Vertebrae: 26. This species has the following distinguishing characters: D X, 14; A III, 7; pectoral rays 16; lateral-line scales 36; gill rakers 13 + 30; body depth 2.7 in SL; head length (HL) 2.85 in SL; large eye, orbit diameter 3.1 in HL; long spine at angle of preopercle, reaching margin of subopercle; triangular and tri-Iobed vomerine tooth patch; teeth absent on mesopterygoids; scales dorsally on snout almost reaching upper lip; naked mandible; third dorsal spine elongate, 1.6 in HL; moderately prolonged as filaments are the rays of about anterior half of soft portion of dorsal fin, with the third ray longest; second anal spine is slightly longer than third, 2.1 in HL; deeply emarginate caudal fin, its lobes tapering little and not pointed, fin length 2.5 in SL; pectoral fins 1.2 in HL; pelvic fins reaching third anal spine base, 2.95 in SL; color when fresh is pale pink and yellow with a broad blackish yellow submaginal band in soft portion of dorsal fin, with caudal fin broadly yellow basally, the lobes and upper and lower margins bright pink (Ref. 57080).
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae
Randall, J.E. and P.C. Heemstra, 2006. Review of the Indo-Pacific fishes of the genus Odontanthias (Serranidae: Anthiinae), with descriptions of two new species and a related genus. Indo-Pac. Fish. (38):32 p. (Ref. 57080)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2024-1)
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Estimates based on models
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref.
82804): PD
50 = 0.5000 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.01349 (0.00618 - 0.02945), b=3.00 (2.81 - 3.19), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref.
93245).
Trophic level (Ref.
69278): 3.3 ±0.4 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives
Resilience (Ref.
120179): High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref.
59153): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).
