''Plesiops auritus'' is a species of marine fish belonging to the family

Plesiopidae The longfins, also known as roundheads or spiny basslets, are a family, Plesiopidae, which were formerly placed in the order Perciformes but are now regarded as being ''incertae sedis'' in the subseries Ovalentaria in the clade Percomorpha. They a ...

. This species grows to a maximum length of . It is found on in the coral reefs and typically found at depths less than 15 m. ''P. auritus lives in the Indo-Pacific from Sri Lanka up to the west coast of the Malaysian Peninsula near Phuket, and south along the western coast of Sumatra to north of Java. The male parent guards the eggs.

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Plesiopinae Taxa named by Randall D. Mooi Fish described in 1995 {{ray-finned fish-stub