Minous

Minous
Plum-striped Stingfish (M. versicolor)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Scorpaeniformes
Family:	Synanceiidae
Genus:	Minous G. Cuvier, 1829

Minous is a genus of stonefishes native to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean.

Species

There are currently 12 recognized species in this genus:^[1]

• Minous andriashevi Mandritsa, 1990
• Minous coccineus Alcock, 1890 (Onestick stingfish)
• Minous dempsterae Eschmeyer, Hallacher & Rama Rao, 1979 (Obliquebanded stingfish)
• Minous inermis Alcock, 1889 (Alcock's scorpionfish)
• Minous longimanus Regan, 1908
• Minous monodactylus (Bloch & J. G. Schneider, 1801) (Grey stingfish)
• Minous pictus Günther, 1880 (Painted stinger)
• Minous pusillus Temminck & Schlegel, 1843 (Dwarf stingfish)
• Minous quincarinatus (Fowler, 1943)
• Minous trachycephalus (Bleeker, 1855) (Striped stingfish)
• Minous usachevi Mandritsa, 1993
• Minous versicolor J. D. Ogilby, 1910 (Plumstriped stingfish)

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