Owstonia

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

Owstonia
Owstonia sibogae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Actinopterygii
Order:
Perciformes
Family:
Cepolidae
Genus:
Owstonia

Type species
Owstonia totomiensis
Tanaka, 1908
Synonyms

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

Species

There are currently 36 recognized species in this genus:

  • Owstonia ainonaka Smith-Vaniz & G. D. Johnson, 2016 [1]
  • Owstonia contodon Smith-Vaniz & G. D. Johnson, 2016 [1]
  • Owstonia crassa Smith-Vaniz & G. D. Johnson, 2016 [1]
  • Owstonia dispar Smith-Vaniz & G. D. Johnson, 2016 [1]
  • Owstonia doryptera (Fowler, 1934) [1]
  • Owstonia elongata Smith-Vaniz & G. D. Johnson, 2016 [1]
  • Owstonia fallax Smith-Vaniz & G. D. Johnson, 2016 [1]
  • Owstonia geminata Smith-Vaniz & G. D. Johnson, 2016 [1]
  • Owstonia grammodon (Fowler, 1934)
  • Owstonia hastata Smith-Vaniz & G. D. Johnson, 2016 [1]
  • Owstonia hawaiiensis Smith-Vaniz & G. D. Johnson, 2016 [1]
  • Owstonia ignota Smith-Vaniz & G. D. Johnson, 2016 [1]
  • Owstonia japonica Kamohara, 1935 [1]
  • Owstonia kamoharai Endo, Y. C. Liao & Matsuura, 2015 (Kamohara's bandfish) [2]
  • Owstonia lepiota Smith-Vaniz & G. D. Johnson, 2016 [1]
  • Owstonia maccullochi Whitley, 1934 (McCulloch's bandfish) [1]
  • Owstonia macrophthalma (Fourmanoir, 1985) [1]
  • Owstonia melanoptera Smith-Vaniz & G. D. Johnson, 2016 [1]
  • Owstonia merensis Smith-Vaniz & G. D. Johnson, 2016 [1]
  • Owstonia mundyi Smith-Vaniz & G. D. Johnson, 2016 [1]
  • Owstonia nalani Smith-Vaniz & G. D. Johnson, 2016 [1]
  • Owstonia nigromarginata (Fourmanoir, 1985) [1]
  • Owstonia nudibucca Smith-Vaniz & G. D. Johnson, 2016 [1]
  • Owstonia psilos Smith-Vaniz & G. D. Johnson, 2016 [1]
  • Owstonia raredonae Smith-Vaniz & G. D. Johnson, 2016 [1]
  • Owstonia rhamma Smith-Vaniz & G. D. Johnson, 2016 [1]
  • Owstonia sarmiento Y. C. Liao, Reyes & K. T. Shao, 2009
  • Owstonia scottensis Smith-Vaniz & G. D. Johnson, 2016 [1]
  • Owstonia sibogae (M. C. W. Weber, 1913) (Comb bandfish) [1]
  • Owstonia similis Smith-Vaniz & G. D. Johnson, 2016 [1]
  • Owstonia simotera (J. L. B. Smith, 1968) [1]
  • Owstonia taeniosoma (Kamohara, 1935) [1]
  • Owstonia tosaensis Kamohara, 1934 [1]
  • Owstonia totomiensis S. Tanaka (I), 1908 (Short-tail bandfish)
  • Owstonia weberi (Gilchrist, 1922) [1]
  • Owstonia whiteheadi (Talwar, 1973) (Indian bandfish) [1]

References
  1. 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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