Plectranthias pelicieri

Plectranthias pelicieri is a species of fish in the family Serranidae occurring in the Indian Ocean.^[2]

Plectranthias pelicieri
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Perciformes
Family:	Anthiadidae
Genus:	Plectranthias
Species:	P. pelicieri
Binomial name
Plectranthias pelicieri J. E. Randall & Shimizu, 1994

Size

This species reaches a length of 4.0 cm (1.6 in).^[3]

Etymology

The fish is named in honor of Daniel Pelicier (1946-2018), an aquarium fish collector and exporter in Flic en Flac, which is a village in Mauritius, who was the one who collected all of the type specimens and provided one of the photographs the authors used in the description. ^[4]