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Online Publication Date: 01 Feb 2002

Plectranthias lamillai Rojas and Pequeño, 1998: A Junior Synonym of Plectranthias exsul Heemstra and Anderson, 1983

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Page Range: 233 – 238
DOI: 10.1643/0045-8511(2002)002[0233:PLRAPO]2.0.CO;2
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Abstract

Comparisons of the holotype of Plectranthias lamillai Rojas and Pequeño, 1998, collected off the Juan Fernández Islands off the coast of Chile, with type and nontype material of another eastern South Pacific species, Plectranthias exsul Heemstra and Anderson, 1983, show that the differences between the two nominal taxa reported by Rojas and Pequeño are not great enough to warrant recognition of two distinct species. Accordingly, we consider P. lamillai to be a junior synonym of P. exsul.

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 Fig. 1. 
 Fig. 1. 

Top: holotype of Plectranthias lamillai Rojas and Pequeño, 1998 (MNHNC P. 7055, 136 mm SL). Center: specimen of Plectranthias exsul Heemstra and Anderson, 1983 (USNM 312927, 122 mm SL). Bottom: holotype of Plectranthias exsul Heemstra and Anderson, 1983 (ANSP 127843, 158 mm SL)

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Reproduction of drawing of holotype (MNHNC P. 7055) of Plectranthias lamillai (from Rojas and Pequeño, 1998a:205, fig. 2)

Received: 17 Jan 2001
Accepted: 08 Jun 2001
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