Redbanded weever

Taxobox
name = Redbanded weever


image_caption = Drawing by Dr Tony Ayling
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Actinopterygii
ordo = Perciformes
familia = Pinguipedidae
genus = "Parapercis"
species = "P. binivirgata"
binomial = "Parapercis binivirgata"
binomial_authority = (Waite, 1904)

The redbanded weever, "Parapercis binivirgata", is a sandperch of the family Pinguipedidae found around Australia and New Zealand at depths of between 50 and 150 m. Its length is up to 20 cm.

The redbanded weever is very similar the the yellow weaver but with a more convex caudal fin, longer pectoral fins, and a blunter snout.

Its coloration is yellow-pink on the back bearing about nine red-brown vertical bars, and a white belly. The fins are yellow with thin wavy blue-grey lines on the dorsal and caudal fins.

References

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* Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, "Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand", (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) ISBN 0-00-216987-8