The Parapercis phenax lives in the demersal, marine, depth range 322 - 600 m environment.
Etymology: This species is named Parapercis phenax from the Greek for imposter, in reference to its resemblance to, and previous misidentification as, P. roseoviridis. Remarks: Marshall (1950) was the first to recognize that a species of Parapercis is sexually dichromatic when he discovered that P. More
Akaeri-toragisu in Japanese (日本語)