Paraplesiops

Paraplesiops is a genus containing five largely allopatric species of fishes in the longfin, or roundhead, family Plesiopidae, commonly known as blue devils, bluedevils, or blue devilfish because of their colouration. The genus is most similar to the tropical genera Plesiops and Fraudella. It is restricted to subtropical and temperate rocky and coral reefs in Australian waters. Its species are mostly cryptic, occurring in submarine caves, crevices and under rocky ledges.^[1]

Paraplesiops
Paraplesiops bleekeri
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Blenniiformes
Family:	Plesiopidae
Subfamily:	Plesiopinae
Genus:	Paraplesiops Bleeker, 1875
Type species
Plesiops bleekeri Günther, 1861
Synonyms
Bleeckeria Castelnau, 1873 Ruppelia Castelnau, 1873 Acanthogonia Ogilby, 1918

Paraplesiops often hide unless food is available, they are very friendly fish unless around their prey. They eat small fish or crustaceans.^[2]

Species

There are five recognized species:^[3]

• Paraplesiops alisonae Hoese and Kuiter, 1984 – Alison's blue devil^[1]
• Paraplesiops bleekeri (Günther, 1861) – eastern blue devil
• Paraplesiops meleagris (Peters, 1869) – southern blue devil
• Paraplesiops poweri Ogilby, 1908 – northern blue devil
• Paraplesiops sinclairi Hutchins, 1987 – western blue devil^[4]