Owstonia

Owstonia
Owstonia sibogae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Cepolidae
Genus: Owstonia
S. Tanaka (I), 1908
Type species
Owstonia totomiensis
Tanaka, 1908
Synonyms

Parasphenanthias Gilchrist, 1922
Pseudocepola Kamohara, 1935
Sphenanthias Weber, 1913

Owstonia is a genus of fish in the family Cepolidae found in deep-waters of the Indian and Pacific Ocean.[1]

Species

There are currently 36 recognized species in this genus:

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 Smith-Vaniz, W.F. & Johnson, G.D. (2016): Hidden diversity in deep-water bandfishes: review of Owstonia with descriptions of twenty-one new species (Teleostei: Cepolidae: Owstoniinae). Zootaxa, 4187 (1): 1–103.
  2. Endo, H., Liao, Y.-C. & Matsuura, K. (2015): Owstonia kamoharai (Perciformes: Cepolidae), a new bandfish from Japan. Ichthyological Research, 63 (1): 31-38.
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