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Paraplesiops

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Family
  
Plesiopidae

Rank
  
Genus

Class
  
Actinopterygii

Phylum
  
Chordata

Order
  
Perciformes

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Similar
  
Western blue devil, Longfin, Northern blue devil, Calloplesiops, Perciformes

Paraplesiops is a genus containing five largely allopatric species of fishes in the longfin, or roundhead, family Plesiopidae, commonly known as blue devils, bluedevils or blue devilfish because of their colouration. The genus is most similar to the tropical genera Plesiops and Fraudella. It is restricted to subtropical and temperate rocky and coral reefs in Australian waters. Its species are mostly cryptic, occurring in submarine caves, crevices and under rocky ledges.

Contents

Eastern blue devil fish paraplesiops bleekeri


Species

  • P. alisonae Hoese and Kuiter, 1984, Alison’s blue devil
  • P. bleekeri (Günther, 1861), eastern blue devil
  • P. meleagris (Peters, 1869), southern blue devil
  • P. poweri Ogilby, 1908, northern blue devil
  • P. sinclairi Hutchins, 1987, western blue devil
  • References

    Paraplesiops Wikipedia
    Fishes of Australia