Bathyanthias

Bathyanthias is a genus of marine ray-finned fish, related to the groupers and included in the subfamily Epinephelinae, part of the family Serranidae, which also includes the anthias and sea basses. They are found in the Western Atlantic Ocean.

Bathyanthias
Yellowtail bass (Bathyanthias mexicanus)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Serranidae
Subfamily: Epinephelinae
Tribe: Liopropomini
Genus: Bathyanthias
Günther, 1880
Type species
Bathyanthias roseus
Günther, 1880[1]
Species

See text

Species

There are three species currently recognised in the genus Bathyanthias:[2]

  • Bathyanthias cubensis (Schultz, 1958)
  • Bathyanthias mexicanus Schultz, 1958 (Yellowtail bass)
  • Bathyanthias roseus Günther, 1880

A fourth valid species, Bathyanthias atlanticus, Schultz, 1958 is listed by some authorities but is not accepted by Fishbase.[3]

Taxonomy

Bathyanthias was created by the British-German zoologist Albert Günther (1830–1914) as a monotypic genus with B. roseus as its only species and with a type locality given as being off Pernambuco in Brazil and the type was collected on the Challenger Expedition of 1872–1876.[3] Phylogenetic studies have suggested that the western Atlantic species within the tribe Liopropomini, including the genus Bathyanthias, form a monophyletic group with respect to the Indo-Pacific species currently classified as being within the genus Liopropoma. This further suggests that Bathyanthias is nested within Liopropoma, these studies indicate that more research is needed into the limits of the genus Liopropoma.[4]

References
  1. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Bathyanthias". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). Species of Bathyanthias in FishBase. december 2019 version.
  3. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Bathyanthias". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
  4. Carole C. Baldwin & D.R. Robertson (2014). "A new Liopropoma sea bass (Serranidae, Epinephelinae, Liopropomini) from deep reefs off Curaçao, southern Caribbean, with comments on depth distributions of Western Atlantic liopropomins". ZooKeys (409): 71–92. doi:10.3897/zookeys.409.7249. PMC 4042691. PMID 24899845.
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