ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. We thank the CSIRO Division of
Fisheries and Oceanography, Hobart, for providing many of
the specimens of the new species of Plectranthias for our
study, Helen K. Larson, Mark McGrouther and Clive D.
Roberts for the loan of specimens, Francisco Neira and Tom
Trnski for the drawings of the three holotypes, and Richard
L. Pyle and Sally Reader for the radiographs.