| Kanekonia | |
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| Kanekonia queenslandica | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Scorpaeniformes |
| Family: | Aploactinidae |
| Genus: | Kanekonia S. Tanaka, 1915 |
| Type species | |
| Kanekonia florida S. Tanaka, 1915 [1] | |
Kanekonia is a genus of marine ray-finned fish, velvetfishes belonging to the family Aploactinidae. The genus is found in the western Pacific and eastern Indian oceans.
Kanekonia was originally described as a genus in 1915 by the Japanese ichthyologist Shigeho Tanaka when he was describing the new species Kanekonia florida from Japan, its type species by monotypy. [1] [2] The genus Kanekonia is classified within the family Aploactinidae in the suborder Scorpaenoidei within the order Scorpaeniformes, [3] although this family is also treated as a subfamily of the stonefish family Synanceiidae [4] [5] within the Scorpaenoidei, which in turn is treated as a superfamily within the order Perciformes. [6] The name of the genus, Kanekonia honours Ichiro Kaneko, who supplied Tanaka with fishes from a fish market in Nagasaki, Japan, including the holotype of K. florida. [7]
There are currently four recognized species in this genus: [8]
Kanekonia velvetfishes are characterised by having a short, deep body with an extremely large head and mouth, with a protruding lower jaw. The preoperculum has 5 blunt spines. The scales take the form of outwardly directed spines, similar to tiny papillae with those on the back and flanks being the largest. They have a continuous dorsal fin which has its origin above the rear part of the eye The spiny part of this fin is longer than the soft-rayed part. [10] The dorsal fin has 11 to 13 spines and 7 to 10 sof rays, while the anal fin has a 1 or 2 spines and between 7 and 9 soft rays. The fin spines do not have venom glands. [9] These are small fishes, the largest species is the deep velvetfish (K. queenslandica) which reaches a maximum total length of 6.4 cm (2.5 in). [8]
Kanekonia velvetfishes are found in the eastern Indian and western Pacific Oceans. [8] These fishes are demersal and are found mainly on sandy substrates. [11] [12]
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