''Pseudanthias cooperi'', the red-bar anthias is a Pseudanthias fish from the

Indo-Pacific The Indo-Pacific is a vast biogeographic region of Earth. In a narrow sense, sometimes known as the Indo-West Pacific or Indo-Pacific Asia, it comprises the tropical waters of the Indian Ocean, the western and central Pacific Ocean, and the ...

Ocean that occasionally makes its way into the aquarium trade. It grows to a size of 14 cm in length.

Etymology

The identity of the person honoured in the

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is not specified in Regan's account but it is thought to be

Clive Forster Cooper Sir Clive Forster Cooper, FRS (3 April 1880 – 23 August 1947) was an English palaeontologist and Director of the Cambridge University Museum of Zoology and Natural History Museum in London. He was the first to describe ''Paraceratherium'', als ...

(1880-1947), who was a member of the expedition on which the

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was collected in the Maldives.

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* cooperi Taxa named by Charles Tate Regan Fish described in 1902 {{Serranidae-stub