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Neosebastes

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Neosebastes
Neosebastes pandus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Scorpaeniformes
Family: Scorpaenidae
Subfamily: Neosebastinae
Genus: Neosebastes
Guichenot, 1867
Type species
Scorpaena panda
Synonyms[1]

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

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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

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

References

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  1. ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Neosebastidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 6 January 2022.
  2. ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Neosebastes". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 6 January 2022.
  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. Retrieved 6 January 2022.
  4. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Neosebastes". 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.