Plectranthias parini explained

Plectranthias parini, Parin's anthias, is a species of fish in the family Serranidae occurring in the south-eastern Pacific Ocean.^[1]

Etymology

The fish is named in honor of ichthyologist Nikolai Vasil’evich Parin (1932-2012), of the Russian Academy of Sciences, who provided the holotype specimen and a color transparency of it.^[2]

Notes and References

1. Anderson, W.D. Jr. and J.E. Randall, 1991. A new species of the anthiine genus Plectranthias (Pisces: Serranidae) from the Sala y Gómez ridge in the eastern south Pacific, with comments on P. exsul. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 104(2):335-343.
2. Web site: Order PERCIFORMES (part 4): Suborder SERRANOIDEI: Families SERRANIDAE and ANTHIADIDAE . 30 March 2023 . Christopher Scharpf . Kenneth J. Lazara . amp . The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database . Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara . 22 September 2018.