Plectranthias elaine

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| status = DD

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Carpenter, K.E., Borsa, P., Jiddawi, N., Obota, C., Smith-Vaniz, W.F. & Yahya, S. |date=2018 |title=Plectranthias elaine |volume=2018 |page=e.T117008646A117008873 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T117008646A117008873.en |access-date=24 December 2023}}

| taxon = Plectranthias elaine

| authority = Heemstra & J. E. Randall, 2009

}}

Plectranthias elaine is a species of fish in the family Serranidae occurring in the western Indian Ocean.

Heemstra, P.C. and J.E. Randall, 2009. A review of the anthiine fish genus Plectranthias (Perciformes: Serranidae) of the Western Indian Ocean, with description of a new species, and a key to the species. Smithiana Bull. 10:3-17.

Size

This species reaches a length of {{convert|5.6|cm|in|abbr=on}}.{{FishBase |genus= Plectranthias |species= elaine| month = February | year = 2015}}

Etymology

The fish is named in honor of Elaine Heemstra, the wife of the senior author, because of her "numerous and valuable contributions to the study of fishes by her beautiful and accurate paintings and drawings and her astute observations of these fascinating creatures".{{cite web | url = http://www.etyfish.org/perciformes4/ | title = Order PERCIFORMES (part 4): Suborder SERRANOIDEI: Families SERRANIDAE and ANTHIADIDAE | access-date= 30 March 2023 | author1 = Christopher Scharpf | author2 = Kenneth J. Lazara | name-list-style = amp | work = The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database | publisher = Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara | date = 22 September 2018}}

References

elaine

Category:Taxa named by Phillip C. Heemstra

Category:Taxa named by John Ernest Randall

Category:Fish described in 2009