Red Basslet, Pseudanthias cooperi (Regan 1902)


Other Names: Cooper's Fairy Basslet, Red Seaperch, Red Sea-perch, Red-bar Anthias, Silverstreak Anthias, Silver-streak Goldie

A male Red Basslet, Pseudanthias cooperi, at Stradbroke Island, Queensland, July 2021. Source: John Turnbull / Flickr. License: CC by Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike

Summary:

Males are reddish with a yellow anal fin, a silvery stripe below the eye onto the gill cover, an incomplete red rectangular bar or on the sides, elongate filaments on the pelvic and anal fins, and a red tail with long silvery blue filaments.

Females and juveniles are reddish above fading to yellowish-orange then pale pink below, a mostly red caudal fin with distinct red tips, a clear or whitish anal fin and no red bar on the sides.


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Bray, D.J. 2024, Pseudanthias cooperi in Fishes of Australia, accessed 28 Mar 2024, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/Home/species/4389

Red Basslet, Pseudanthias cooperi (Regan 1902)

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Distribution

Houtman Abrolhos Islands to east of Exmouth, Western Australia, the northern Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, and reefs in the Coral Sea, to Jervis Bay, New South Wales, with vagrants reaching south to Montague Island, New South Wales; also at Cocos (Keeling) Islands in the eastern Indian Ocean. Elsewhere the species occurs in the tropical, Indo-west-central Pacific.
Loose aggregations inhabit open areas over low reefs, remote bommies and current-swept drop-offs, mostly at depths below 20 m. Juveniles may inhabit shallow coastal reefs.

Features

Dorsal fin X, 15-17; Anal fin III, 7-8.

Etymology

The species is named in honour of paleontologist Clive Forster Cooper, a member of 1900 expedition to the Maldive and Laccadive islands, during which the type specimen was collected.

Species Citation

Anthias cooperi Regan 1902, Fauna Geogr. Maldives Laccadive Archipel. 1: 273. Type locality: Haddummati Atoll, Maldives, Indian Ocean, depth 40 fathoms.

Author

Bray, D.J. 2024

Resources

Atlas of Living Australia

Red Basslet, Pseudanthias cooperi (Regan 1902)

References


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Allen, G.R. & Erdmann, M.V. 2012. Reef fishes of the East Indies. Perth : Tropical Reef Research 3 vols, 1260 pp. 

Allen, G.R. & Smith-Vaniz, W.F. 1994. Fishes of Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Atoll Research Bulletin 412: 1-21 

Allen, G.R. & Starck, W.A. 1982. The anthiid fishes of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia, with the description of a new species. Revue Française d'Aquariologie et Herpétologie 9(2): 47-56 figs 1-28 (as Anthias kashiwae)

Allen, G.R. & Swainston, R. 1988. The Marine Fishes of North-Western Australia. A field guide for anglers and divers. Perth, WA : Western Australian Museum vi 201 pp., 70 pls. (as Anthias cooperi)

Ceccarelli, D., Choat, J.H., Ayling, A.M., Richards, Z., van Herwerden, L., Ayling, A., Ewels, G., Hobbs, J. –P. & Cuff, B. 2008. Coringa-Herald National Nature Reserve Marine Survey – 2007. Report to the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts by C&R Consulting and James Cook University. 80 p. (as Pseudanthias kashiwae)

Heemstra, P.C. & Akhilesh, K.V. 2012. A review of the anthiine fish genus Pseudanthias (Perciformes: Serranidae) of the western Indian Ocean, with description of a new species and a key to the species. aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology 18(3): 121-164.

Hobbs, J-P.A., Newman, S .J., Mitsopoulos, G.E.A., Travers, M.J., et al. 2014. Fishes of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands: new records, community composition and biogeographic significance. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology Supplement 30: 203–219 See ref online

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Kuiter, R.H. 1993. Coastal Fishes of South-eastern Australia. Bathurst : Crawford House Press 437 pp.

Kuiter, R.H. 1996. Guide to Sea Fishes of Australia. A comprehensive reference for divers and fishermen. Sydney, NSW, Australia : New Holland Publishers xvii, 434 pp.

Kuiter, R.H. 2004. Basslets, Hamlets and their relatives. A comprehensive guide to selected Serranidae and Plesiopidae. Chorleywood, UK : TMC Publishing 1, 216 pp. (as Pseudanthias kashiwae)

Kuiter, R.H. & Kuiter, S.L. 2018. Coastal Sea-Fishes of South-eastern Australia. Seaford, Victoria : Aquatic Photographics 371 pp.

Kuiter, R.H. & Tonozuka, T. 2001. Pictorial guide to Indonesian reef fishes. Part 1. Eels- Snappers, Muraenidae - Lutjanidae. Zoonetics, Australia. 302 p.

Larson, H.K., Williams, R.S. & Hammer, M.P. 2013. An annotated checklist of the fishes of the Northern Territory, Australia. Zootaxa 3696(1): 1-293 

Randall, J.E. 2005. Reef and shore fishes of the South Pacific. New Caledonia to Tahiti and the Pitcairn Islands. Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press 707 pp. 

Randall, J.E., Allen, G.R. & Steene, R. 1990. Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea. Bathurst : Crawford House Press 507 pp. figs. 

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Regan, C.T. 1902. On the fishes from the Maldive Islands. Fauna and Geography of the Maldives and Laccadive Archipelagoes. Being the Account of the Work Carried on and of the Collections Made by an Expedition During the Years 1899 and 1900 1(3): 272-281 https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.10215

Tanaka, S. 1918. Figures and Descriptions of the Fishes of Japan, including Riukiu Islands, Bonin Islands, Formosa, Kurile Islands, Korea and southern Sakhalin. Tokyo Vol. 29 pp. 515–538 pls 138–139. (described as Leptanthias kashiwae, type locality Kashiwajima, Kochi Prefecture, Japan)

Williams, J.T., Lawrence, A. & Myers, R. 2016. Pseudanthias cooperi . The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T69590668A69592517. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T69590668A69592517.en. Downloaded on 12 November 2019.

Quick Facts


CAAB Code:37311113

Conservation:IUCN Least Concern

Depth:3-160 m

Fishing:Aquarium fish

Habitat:Reef associated

Max Size:14 cm TL

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