Graham's Swallowtail, Odontanthias xanthomaculatus (Fourmanoir & Rivaton 1979)

Graham's Swallowtail, Odontanthias grahami, from off northern New South Wales - freshly dead holotype, AMS I.32142-010, 9.3 cm SL. Source: John E. Randall / FishBase. License: CC by Attribution-NonCommercial

Summary:

A rare pale pink and yellow deepwater anthiid with a broad blackish-yellow submaginal band on soft portion of the dorsal fin, and the caudal fin with a yellow base and bright pink lobes and outer margins.

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Bray, D.J. 2023, Odontanthias xanthomaculatus in Fishes of Australia, accessed 06 Apr 2025, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/species/1758

Graham's Swallowtail, Odontanthias xanthomaculatus (Fourmanoir & Rivaton 1979)

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Distribution	Off Coolum, southern Queensland, to southeast of Kingscliff, northern New South Wales; also the Lord Howe Rise in the Tasman Sea. Inhabits mesophotic reefs.
Features	Dorsal fin X, 14; Anal fin III, 7; Pectoral fin 16; Lateral-line scales 36-40; Gill rakers 13 + 30; Vertebrae 26. Body depth 2.7 in SL; head length (HL) 2.85 in SL; large eye, orbit diameter 3.1 in HL; long spine at angle of preopercle, reaching margin of subopercle; triangular and tri-Iobed vomerine tooth patch; teeth absent on mesopterygoids; scales dorsally on snout almost reaching upper lip; naked mandible; Third dorsal-fin spine elongate, 1.6 in HL; moderately prolonged as filaments are the rays of about anterior half of soft portion of dorsal fin, with the third finray longest; second anal-fin spine is slightly longer than third, 2.1 in HL; deeply emarginate caudal fin, its lobes tapering little and not pointed, fin length 2.5 in SL; pectoral fins 1.2 in HL; pelvic fins reaching third anal spine base, 2.95 in SL.
Remarks	Gill & Tang (2022) showed that Odontanthias grahami is a junior synonym of O. xanthomaculatus.
Etymology	The specific name xanthomaculatus is from the Latin xanthos (= yellow) and maculatus (= spotted), in reference to the large yellow spot between eighth dorsal-fin spine and the fifth dorsal-fin ray, that extends from the dorsal profile to the middle of the body.
Species Citation	Anthias xanthomaculatus Fourmanoir & Rivaton 1979, Cahiers de l'Indo-Pacifique 1(4): 414, Fig. 8. Type locality: Bulari Pass, New Caledonia, depth 200 m.
Author	Bray, D.J. 2023
Resources	Atlas of Living Australia Australian Faunal Directory Catalog of Fishes

Graham's Swallowtail, Odontanthias xanthomaculatus (Fourmanoir & Rivaton 1979)

References

Gill, A.C. & Russell, B.C. 2019. Redescription of Anthias xanthomaculatus Fourmanoir and Rivaton, and its reassignment in the genus Odontanthias Bleeker (Teleostei: Serranidae: Anthiadinae). Zootaxa 4568 (1): 177–184 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4568.1.11

Heemstra, P.C. & Randall, J.E. 1999. Family Serranidae. pp. 2442-2548 in Carpenter, K.E. & Niem, T.H. (eds). The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Pacific. FAO Species Identification Guide for Fisheries Purposes. Rome : FAO Vol. 4 pp. 2069-2790.

Randall, J.E. & Heemstra, P.C. 2006. Review of the Indo-Pacific fishes of the genus Odontanthias (Serranidae: Anthiinae), with descriptions of two new species and a related genus. Indo-Pacific Fishes 38: 1-32.

White, W.T. 2011. Odontanthias randalli n. sp., a new anthiine fish (Serranidae: Anthiinae) from Indonesia. Zootaxa 3015: 21-28. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3015.1.3

Williams, J.T., Lawrence, A. & Myers, R. 2016. Pseudanthias xanthomaculatus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T69591923A69592824. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T69591923A69592824.en. Accessed on 23 December 2022.