Two rarely seen deepwater perchlets have been collected and exported from Southern Taiwan. Plectranthias maekawa was only described in 2018, based on three specimens collected from the Tokara Islands, Kagoshima, Southern Japan. It inhabits the cool, low light, rariphotic waters…
Plectranthias maekawa, a New Deepwater Basslet Species from Japan
Plectranthias maekawa is a new species of deepwater fish from our favorite group of not-quite-anthias, the Plectranthias ‘basslets’. While the new Maekawa basslet was officially described by scientists late last year, this little gem has made at least one appearance in Japanese…
