Melanesian anthias
Amazing fact
Melanesian anthias have an elongated dorsal-fin spine and elongated tail-fin lobes.
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Melanesian anthias have an elongated dorsal-fin spine and elongated tail-fin lobes.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Melanesian anthias
- Scientific name
- Pseudanthias huchtii
- Japanese name
- メラネシアンアンシアス
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Serranidae
- Genus
- Pseudanthias
It lives in the western Pacific, from the Philippines to Vanuatu and the Great Barrier Reef.
Males and females are colored differently: females have no red line and are yellowish all over.
How the Melanesian anthias lives
It gathers above drop-offs on outer reef crests. Females greatly outnumber males.
Australian MuseumBasic data
- Range
- Moluccas, Philippines to Vanuatu, Great Barrier Reef, and Palau in the western central Pacific
Where the Melanesian anthias has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- メラネシアンアンシアス
- 简体中文
- 赫氏拟花鮨
- 繁體中文
- 赫氏擬花鮨
- Español
- Anthias de Cachetes Rosados
- Français
- Anthias verdâtre
- Deutsch
- Grüner Fahnenbarsch
- Português (Brasil)
- Anthias-da-Melanésia
- Italiano
- Anthias di Hutch
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Ikan gadis tangis-darah
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 鳥羽水族館 — メラネシアンアンシアスChecked: 2026-11-04
- Australian Museum — Pacific Basslet, Pseudanthias huchtii (Bleeker, 1857)Checked: 2026-11-07
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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