northern blue devil

{{Short description|Species of fish}}

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| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Williams, J.T. |year=2022 |title=Paraplesiops poweri |page=e.T214365931A214365934 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-2.RLTS.T214365931A214365934.en}}

| taxon = Paraplesiops poweri

| authority = Ogilby, 1908

| synonyms = Paraplesiops jolliffei Ogilby, 1916

| synonyms_ref = {{FishBase|Paraplesiops|poweri|month=June|year=2018}}

}}

The northern blue devil (Paraplesiops poweri) is a species of fish in the longfin family Plesiopidae. It has been recorded from the inshore waters of Queensland, eastern Australia, from Bowen to Moreton Bay.{{cite journal |author1=Hoese, Douglass F. |author2=Kuiter, Rudie H. |name-list-style=amp |year= 1984|title= A revision of the Australian plesiopid fish genus Paraplesiops, with notes on other Australian genera. |journal= Records of the Australian Museum |volume=36 |issue=1 |pages= 7–18|url= http://australianmuseum.net.au/Uploads/Journals/17631/322_complete.pdf | doi=10.3853/j.0067-1975.36.1984.322}} The specific name honours Percy Power, who caught the type specimen.{{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}}