Biology:Neosebastes

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Short description: Genus of fishes

Neosebastes
NeosebastesPandusRLS.jpg
Neosebastes pandus
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Scorpaeniformes
Family: Scorpaenidae
Subfamily: Neosebastinae
Genus: Neosebastes
Guichenot, 1867
Type species
Scorpaena panda
J. Richardson, 1842
Synonyms[1]
  • Pseudosebastes Sauvage, 1875
  • Sebastosemus Gill, 1905

Neosebastes is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes, belonging to the subfamily Neosebastinae, the gurnard scorpionfishes, part of the family Scorpaenidae. These fishes are found in the Indian and Pacific Ocean.

Taxonomy

Neosebastes was first described as a genus in 1867 by the French zoologist Alphonse Guichenot. In 1876 Pieter Bleeker designated Scorpaena panda, which had been described by John Richardson in 1842 from Cockburn Sound in Western Australia, as the type species of the genus.[2] The genus name is a compound of neo meaning "new" and Sebastes, as, when he coined the name, Guichenot thought that the new genus was closely related to or was a subgenus of the genus Sebastes.[3]

Species

There are currently 12 recognized species in this genus:[4]

  • Neosebastes bougainvillii (G. Cuvier, 1829) (Gulf gurnard perch)
  • Neosebastes capricornis Motomura, 2004 (Capricorn gurnard perch)
  • Neosebastes entaxis D. S. Jordan & Starks, 1904 (Oriental gurnard perch)
  • Neosebastes incisipinnis J. D. Ogilby, 1910 (Incised gurnard perch)
  • Neosebastes johnsoni Motomura, 2004 (Johnson's gurnard perch)
  • Neosebastes longirostris Motomura, 2004 (Long-snout gurnard perch)
  • Neosebastes multisquamus Motomura, 2004 (Ogasawara gurnard perch) [5]
  • Neosebastes nigropunctatus McCulloch, 1915 (Black-spotted gurnard perch)
  • Neosebastes occidentalis Motomura, 2004 (Orange-banded gurnard perch)
  • Neosebastes pandus (J. Richardson, 1842) (Rough gurnard perch)
  • Neosebastes scorpaenoides Guichenot, 1867 (Ruddy gurnard perch)
  • Neosebastes thetidis (Waite, 1899) (Thetis gurnard perch)

References

  1. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron; van der Laan, Richard, eds. "Genera in the family Neosebastidae". California Academy of Sciences. http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatget.asp?tbl=genus&family=Neosebastidae. 
  2. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron; van der Laan, Richard, eds. "Species in the genus Neosebastes". California Academy of Sciences. http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatget.asp?tbl=species&genus=Neosebastes. 
  3. Christopher Scharpf; Kenneth J. Lazara, eds (22 May 2021). "Order Perciformes (Part 8): Suborder Scorpaenoidei: Families Sebastidae, Setarchidae and Neosebastidae". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. https://etyfish.org/perciformes8/. 
  4. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2016). Species of Neosebastes in FishBase. October 2016 version.
  5. Yoshikawa, A. & Kai, Y. (2016): Revised diagnosis and genetic divergence of a poorly known scorpionfish, Neosebastes multisquamus (Scorpaeniformes: Neosebastidae). Marine Biodiversity, 48 (2): 1255–1259.

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