Sea goldie

Pseudanthias squamipinnis

Fish
IUCN: Least concern

Usual depth4–28 m
Water temperature18–30 °C
Best monthsApril, October, and November
How commonOccasional

Photo credit: (c) Pauline Walsh Jacobson, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Pauline Walsh Jacobson · CC BY · iNaturalist

About this species

The sea goldie, also known as the orange basslet, lyretail coralfish, onestripe goldie, lyretail anthias, lyretail fairy basslet, orange fairy basslet, orange seaperch, scalefin basslet, scalefin Fairy basslet and scalefin anthias, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, an anthias from the subfamily Anthiinae part of the family Serranidae, the groupers and sea basses. It has a wide Indo-Pacific distribution. It is found in the aquarium trade.

Text from the Wikipedia article “Sea goldie”, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the article

Where and when

Where it has been recorded

Worldwide

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Best months

Worldwide (open data)

January: 215 records
February: 177 records
March: 228 records
April: 338 records
May: 190 records
June: 252 records
July: 230 records
August: 235 records
September: 243 records
October: 345 records
November: 308 records
December: 229 records

Depth and water temperature

Depth

Mostly recorded at 4–28 m · Deepest record: 79 m

0–10 m: 118 records
10–20 m: 131 records
20–30 m: 56 records
30–40 m: 17 records
40–50 m: 3 records
50–60 m: 1 records
60–70 m: 2 records
70–80 m: 1 records

Water temperature

Recorded in surface water of 18–30 °C

18–20 °C: 1 records
20–22 °C: 5 records
22–24 °C: 26 records
24–26 °C: 57 records
26–28 °C: 83 records
28–30 °C: 84 records

Photos

(c) Grete Pasch, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Gergely Nigg, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) R Vasconcellos, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
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(c) Storm Martin, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Jan Ebr & Ivana Ebrová, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Ewout Knoester, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) · CC BY-SA · iNaturalist

Names and classification

English: Sea goldie, Goldie, Lyretail anthias, Lyretail coralfish, Lyretail fairy basslet, Orange basslet, Orange fairy basslet, Orange seaperch, Rainbow, Red coral perch, scalefin anthias, Scalefin basslet, Scalefin fairy basslet, sea goldie

Names in 3 more languages

Spanish: Tres colas dorado indico
French: Anthias commun, Barbier commun, Barbier rouge
Japanese: Kingyohanadai, キンギョハナダイ

Other scientific names: Anthias lepidolepis, Anthias sqamipinnis, Anthias squamipinnis, Anthias squammipinnis, Franzia squamipinnis, Pseudanthias squammipinnis, Pseudantthias squamipinnis, Pseudoanthias squamipinnis, Serranus squamipinnis

Similar species

Hucht's fairy basslet
Pseudanthias huchtii
Pink basslet
Pseudanthias hypselosoma
Amethyst Anthias
Mirolabrichthys pascalus
Purple Anthias
Mirolabrichthys tuka
Xenanthias longimanus
Waite's splitfin
Luzonichthys waitei

Sources and credits

Names and taxonomy: WoRMS (CC BY 4.0) and the GBIF Backbone (CC BY 4.0). Photos: iNaturalist observers, each under the licence shown (CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA).

Depth, temperature, months and maps: records from OBIS and GBIF under CC0 or CC BY.
Descriptions: Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA, each linked to its article.
Conservation status as published by GBIF (IUCN Red List).
2,438 open-data records from 1855 to 2023.
Species data updated October 26, 2026.

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