Western blue devil

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| image = Western Blue Devil.jpg

| image_alt = Western blue devil in 20m of water

| image_caption = Western blue devil Paraplesiops sinclairi

| taxon = Paraplesiops sinclairi

| authority = Hutchins, 1987

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The western blue devil (Paraplesiops sinclairi) is a species of fish in the longfin family Plesiopidae endemic to Western Australia.{{cite journal |author=Hutchins, J.B. |year=1987 |title= Description of a new plesiopid fish from south-western Australia, with a discussion of zoogeography of Paraplesiops.|journal= Records of the Western Australian Museum |volume=13 |issue=2 |pages=231–240 }} The fish is found in rocky reef habitats in the coastal, inshore waters of southwestern Western Australia, from the Recherche Archipelago to Lancelin. The specific name was coined as a memorial to the ichthyologist Nicholas Sinclair of the Australian Museum who was involved in the collection of the type specimens.{{cite web | url = http://www.etyfish.org/ovalentaria/ | title = Subseries OVALENTARIA: Incertae sedis | access-date= 29 September 2018 | 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 = 29 March 2018}}