Plectranthias parini, Parin's anthias, is a species of fish in the family Serranidae occurring in the south-eastern Pacific Ocean.Anderson, W.D. Jr. and J.E. Randall, 1991. A new species of the anthiine genus Plectranthias (Pisces: Serranidae) from the Sala y Gómez ridge in the eastern south Pacific, with comments on P. exsul. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 104(2):335-343.
Etymology The fish is named in honor of ichthyologist Nikolai Vasil’evich Parin (1932-2012), of the Russian Academy of Sciences, who provided the holotype specimen and a color transparency of it.
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