miniatura|Pseudanthias squamipinnis miniatura|Exemplar de les Maldives miniatura|Pseudanthias squamipinnis a l'aquàrium de Newport, Kentucky miniatura|Parella de Pseudanthias squamipinnis a l'aquàrium de Newport, Kentucky miniatura|Exemplar mascle miniatura|Exemplars fotografiats a Dahab (Egipte). Pseudanthias squamipinnis és una espècie de peix de la família dels serrànids i de l'ordre dels perciformes.

Morfologia Els mascles poden assolir 15 cm de longitud total.Lieske, E. i R. Myers, 1994. Collins Pocket Guide. Coral reef fishes. Indo-Pacific & Caribbean including the Red Sea. Harper Collins Publishers, 400 p.

Reproducció És hermafrodita.Allsop, D.J. i S.A. West, 2003. Constant relative age and size at sex change for sequentially hermaphroditic fish. J. Evol. Biol. 16(2003):921-929.Sadovy, Y. i D.Y. Shapiro, 1987. Criteria for the diagnosis of hermaphroditism in fishes. Copeia (1):136-156.Shapiro, D.Y., 1988. Behavioral influences on gene structure and other new ideas concerning sex change in fishes. Environ. Biol. Fish. 23(4):283-297.

Alimentació Menja zooplàncton.Anderson, C. i A. Hafiz, 1987. Common reef fishes of the Maldives. Novelty Press, Maldives.

Depredadors És depredat per Cephalopholis argus, Cephalopholis hemistiktos i Cephalopholis miniata.FishBase

Hàbitat És un peix marí de clima tropical i associat als esculls de corall que viu fins als 55 m de fondària.Weitkamp, D.E. i R.D. Sullivan, 1939. Fishes. The John Murray Expedition 1933-1934. Sci. Reports, John Murray Exped., 25 Nov., v. 7 (núm. 1): 1-116.

Distribució geogràfica Es troba des de la Mar RojaKhalaf, M.A., 2005. Fish fauna of the Jordanian Coast, Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea. Journal of King AbdulAziz University-Marine Sciences. Vol. 15.Gundermann, N. i D. Popper, 1975. Some aspects of recolonization of coral rocks in Eilat (Gulf of Aqaba) by fish populations after poisoning. Mar. Biol. 33:109-117. i Sud-àfrica (KwaZulu-Natal)van der Elst, R., 1993. A guide to the common sea fishes of southern Africa. (3a edició) Struik Publishers, Ciutat del Cap. 398 p. fins a Niue,Myers, R.F., 1999. Micronesian reef fishes: a comprehensive guide to the coral reef fishes of Micronesia. Coral Graphics, Barrigada, Guam. 330 p. Japó i Austràlia.Paxton, J.R., D.F. Hoese, G.R. Allen i J.E. Hanley, 1989. Pisces. Petromyzontidae to Carangidae. Zoological Catalogue of Australia, Vol. 7. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 665 p.Hoese, D.F., D.J. Bray, J.R. Paxton i G.R. Allen, 2006. Fishes. A Beasley, O.L. i A. Wells (eds.) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Volum 35. ABRS & CSIRO Publishing: Australia Part 1, pp. xxiv 1-670; Part 2, pp. xxi 671-1472; Part 3, pp. xxi 1473-2178.Garpe, K.C. i M.C. Öhman, 2003. Coral and fish distribution patterns in Mafia Island Marine Park, Tanzania: fish-habitat interactions. Hydrobiologia 498: 191-211.

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