{{Short description|Genus of ray-finned fishes}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Dactylanthias | authority = Bleeker, 1871 | type_species = ''Anthias aplodactylus'' | type_species_authority = Bleeker, 1858 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text }}
'''''Dactylanthias''''' is a small genus of ray-finned fish belonging to the family Anthiadidae. It includes only two species from Ambon Island, Indonesia and the Tuamotus, French Polynesia.
==Taxonomy== ''Dactylanthias'' was first established by the Dutch ichthyologist Pieter Bleeker in 1871.<ref name="worms">{{cite WoRMS|author=Nicolas Bailly|year=2013|id=268937 |title=''Dactylanthias''|db=fish|accessdate=September 26, 2013}}</ref>
==Description== ''Dactylanthias'' was known only from a single specimen of ''Dactylanthias aplodactylus'' from Ambon Island, Indonesia,<ref name="fb1">{{cite web|url=http://www.fishbase.org/summary/61253|title= ''Dactylanthias aplodactylus'' (Bleeker, 1858) |author=Cristina V. Garilao & Kathleen Kesner-Reyes|publisher=FishBase|accessdate=September 26, 2013}}</ref> until another species was described in 2007 from the Tuamotus of French Polynesia.<ref name="fb2">{{cite web|url=http://www.fishbase.se/summary/63996|title= ''Dactylanthias baccheti'' Randall, 2007|author=Estelita Emily Capuli & Nicolas Bailly|publisher=FishBase|accessdate=September 26, 2013}}</ref><ref name="rand">{{cite journal|author=J.E. Randall|year=2007|title=''Dactylanthias baccheti'', a new species of anthiine fish (Perciformes: Serranidae) from the Tuamotu Archipelago|journal=Aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology|volume=12|issue=2|pages=83–88}}</ref>
==Species== The following species are classified under ''Dactylanthias'':<ref name="worms"/> * ''Dactylanthias aplodactylus''<small> (Bleeker, 1858)</small> * ''Dactylanthias baccheti''<small> Randall, 2007</small>
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Category:Anthiadidae Category:Marine fish genera Category:Perciformes genera Category:Taxa named by Pieter Bleeker
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