Purple Queen, Pseudanthias tuka (Herre & Montalban 1927)
Other Names: Purple Anthias, Purple Queenfish
A male Purple Queen, Pseudanthias tuka, on Osprey Reef in the Coral Sea, July 2015. Source: Ian Shaw / iNaturalist.org. License: CC BY Attribution-NonCommercial
Summary:
A deep pinkish to purple anthiine with a yellow stripe along the back and upper and lower caudal-fin lobes in females. Males have a very pointed snout, a dark blotch on the rear of the dorsal fin, extended caudal-fin lobes, and tall second dorsal and anal fin rays.
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Bray, D.J. 2020, Pseudanthias tuka in Fishes of Australia, accessed 28 May 2023, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/Home/species/4403
Purple Queen, Pseudanthias tuka (Herre & Montalban 1927)
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Distribution |
Offshore reefs of north Western Australia, Ashmore Reef in the Timor Sea, and the far northern Great Barrier Reef to NE of Townsville, and reefs in the Coral Sea. Elsewhere the species occurs in the south-east-Indo-west Pacific: Indonesia east to Philippines and Solomon Islands, north to southern Japan, south to Australia. Forms large aggregations along the upper edge of drop-offs and on steep outer reef slopes at depths to 40 m. |
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Etymology |
The specific name tuka (= beak) in the Tagalog language group in the Philippines, in allusion to the projecting tip on the snout. |
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Species Citation |
Mirolabrichthys tuka Herre & Montalban, in Herre 1927, Philippine Journal of Science 32: 413. Type locality: Maricaban Island, Philippine Islands. |
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Author |
Bray, D.J. 2020 |
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Purple Queen, Pseudanthias tuka (Herre & Montalban 1927)
References
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Herre, A.W. & Montalban, H.R. in Herre, A.W. 1927. A new genus and three new species of Philippine fishes. Philippine Journal of Science 32: 413-417 figs 1-2
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Williams, J.T., Lawrence, A. & Myers, R. 2016. Pseudanthias tuka. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T69591878A69592819. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T69591878A69592819.en. Downloaded on 07 November 2020.
