Paranthias

Paranthias is a genus of marine ray-finned fish which are commonly referred to as creolefish. They are groupers from the family Epinephelidae which are found in the Atlantic Ocean and the eastern Pacific Ocean. Unlike other groupers, they are filter feeders like the distantly related "true" anthias.

==Taxonomy== The genus Paranthias was created in 1863 by the American ichthyologist Theodore Nicholas Gill (1837–1914) as a monotypic genus; it contained only the type species Serranus furcifer. The Pacific creole-fish was considered conspecific with the creolefish until it was accepted as a distinct species. The name is a combination of para- (near/resembling) and anthias, alluding to their superficial resemblance to Anthiadines such as Anthias.