Pseudanthias Bleeker [P.] 1871:Pls. 287-288 Masc. Anthias pleurotaenia Bleeker 1857. Type by subsequent designation. Apparently correctly dates to Pls. 287-288 in part 24 as above; corresponding legend (p. 124) published in 1876, corresponding text (p. 16) published in 1875. Also appeared in Bleeker 1872:156 [ref. 432] where type was designated. •Synonym of Anthias Bloch 1792 -- (Heemstra & Randall 1986:511 [ref. 5667]). •Valid as Pseudanthias Bleeker 1871 -- (Katayama in Masuda et al. 1984:136 [ref. 6441], Katayama & Amaoka 1986:219 [ref. 6680], Randall & Hutomo 1988 [ref. 6679], Randall & Allen 1989 [ref. 13389], Baldwin 1990:943 [ref. 21029], Rojas M. & Pequeño 1998:45 [ref. 23540], Heemstra & Randall 1999:2449 [ref. 24815], Allen et al. 2006:991 [ref. 29078], Allen & Erdmann 2008:140 [ref. 29480], Motomura in Motomura & Satapoomin 2009:93 [ref. 30492], Motomura et al. 2010:119 [ref. 31101], Motomura et al. 2010:101 [ref. 31256], Randall 2011:79 [ref. 31328], Heemstra & Akhilesh 2012:123 [ref. 32094], Pinault et al. 2015:255 [ref. 33652], Motomura et al. 2017:92 [ref. 35490], Gill et al. 2017:67 [ref. 35653], Krishna et al. 2017:213 [ref. 35669], Anderson 2018:35 [ref. 36146], Fricke et al. 2018:157 [ref. 35805], Gill & Psomadakis 2018:525 [ref. 36054], Golani & Fricke 2018:66 [ref. 36273], Fricke et al. 2019:123 [ref. 36673], Parenti & Randall 2020:32 [ref. 37354], Victor et al. 2020:6 [ref. 37807], Gill et al. 2021:49 [ref. 38405], Shepherd et al. 2021:1 [ref. 38559], Anderson 2022:572 [ref. 39757]). Current status: Valid as Pseudanthias Bleeker 1871. Anthiadidae.