Bandfish
Bandfishes are a family, Cepolidae, of perciform fishes. They are native to the Atlantic seaboard of Europe and the West Pacific, including New Zealand. They dig burrows in sandy or muddy seabed and eat zooplankton.[1]
The oldest recipe by a named author involves the preparation of a bandfish. The original recipe book, by Mithaecus, is now lost, but the recipe itself survives thanks to being quoted in the Deipnosophistae.[2][3]
Species
There are 23 species in five genera, according to FishBase:[1]
- Genus Acanthocepola
- Yellow-spotted bandfish, Acanthocepola abbreviata (Valenciennes, 1835)
- Indian bandfish, Acanthocepola indica (Day, 1888)
- Red-spotted bandfish, Acanthocepola krusensternii (Temminck & Schlegel, 1845)
- Black-spot bandfish, Acanthocepola limbata (Valenciennes, 1835)
- Genus Cepola
- Genus Owstonia
- Owstonia dorypterus (Fowler, 1934)
- Owstonia grammodon (Fowler, 1934)
- Owstonia maccullochi Whitley, 1934
- Owstonia macrophthalmus (Fourmanoir, 1985)
- Owstonia nigromarginatus (Fourmanoir, 1985)
- Owstonia pectinifer (Myers, 1939)
- Owstonia sarmiento Liao, Reyes & Shao, 2009[4]
- Owstonia simoterus (Smith, 1968)
- Owstonia tosaensis Kamohara, 1934
- Owstonia totomiensis Tanaka, 1908
- Owstonia weberi (Gilchrist, 1922)
- Genus Pseudocepola
- Pseudocepola taeniosoma Kamohara, 1935
- Genus Sphenanthias
- Sphenanthias sibogae Weber, 1913
References
- ^ a b Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2010). "Cepolidae" in FishBase. February 2010 version.
- ^ Dalby, Andrew (2003). Food in the ancient world from A to Z. Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England: Routledge. pp. 79, 220. ISBN 0-4152-3259-7.
- ^ Dalby, Andrew (1996). Siren Feasts. Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England: Routledge. pp. 109–110. ISBN 0-4151-5657-2.
- ^ Yun-Chih Liao, Rodolfo B. Reyes Jr. and Kwang-Tsao Shao (2009). "A new bandfish, Owstonia sarmiento (Pisces: Perciformes: Cepolidae: Owstoniinae), from the Philippines with a key to species of the genus". The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 57 (2): 521–525.