Neosebastes Explained

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. 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.^[1]

Species

There are currently 12 recognized species in this genus:

• 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) ^[2]
• 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)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Order Perciformes (Part 8): Suborder Scorpaenoidei: Families Sebastidae, Setarchidae and Neosebastidae . The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database . Christopher Scharpf . Kenneth J. Lazara . amp . 22 May 2021 . 6 January 2022 . Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara.
2. 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.