Pseudanthias emma, Emma's basslet

Pseudanthias emma Gill & Psomadakis, 2018

Emma's basslet
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Teleostei (teleosts) > Perciformes/Serranoidei (Groupers) > Anthiadidae (Fairy basslets or Streamer basses)
Etymology: Pseudanthias: Greek, pseudes = false + Greek, anthias = a fish, Sparus aurata (Ref. 45335); emma: Named for the second author’s daughter Emma; noun in apposition.
Eponymy: Emma Psomadakis is the daughter of the second author, marine biologist and ecologist Dr Peter Nick Psomadakis. (Ref. 128868), visit book page.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Marine; reef-associated; depth range ? - 105 m (Ref. 118516). Tropical

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Eastern Indian Ocean: Andaman Sea, Myanmar.

Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 10.7 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 118516)

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Dorsal spines (total): 10; Dorsal soft rays (total): 16; Anal spines: 3; Anal soft rays: 7; Vertebrae: 26. This species is distinguished from its congeners by the following set of characters: D X,16, with third dorsal-fin spine longest, prolonged; pectoral rays 18; lateral-line scales 42; no papillae on posterior margin of orbit; soft part of dorsal with low scaly sheath; subopercle and interopercle are indistinctly serrated; caudal fin weakly concave centrally, with elongate filaments extending from second to uppermost and second to lowermost branched rays (Ref. 118516).
Cross section: compressed.

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

The specimen was caught in the same haul with the following species : Roa jayakari, Heniochus acuminatus, Pristigenys refulgens, Wattsia mossambica as well as several other reef-associated fish species (Ref. 118516).

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Gill, A.C. and P.N. Psomadakis, 2018. Pseudanthias emma new species, with notes on a collection of anthiadine serranid fishes from off Myanmar (eastern Indian Ocean). Zootaxa 4455(3):525-536. (Ref. 118516)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2)

Not Evaluated 

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





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