Neocentropogon

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Neocentropogon
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Scorpaeniformes
Family: Scorpaenidae
Subfamily: Tetraroginae
Genus: Neocentropogon
Matsubara, 1943
Type species
Paracentropogon aeglefinus
Weber, 1913 [1]
Synonyms [1]

Neocentropogon is a poorly known genus of marine ray-finned fishes, waspfishes belonging to the subfamily Tetraroginae, which is classified as part of the family Scorpaenidae, the scorpionfishes and their relatives. The fishes in this genus are native to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean.

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Taxonomy

Neocentropogon was first formally described as a genus in 1943 by the Japanese ichthyologist Kiyomatsu Matsubara, with Paracentropogon aeglefinus, which had been described in 1913 by the German born Dutch zoologist Max Carl Wilhelm Weber from various locations in Indonesia, designated as the type species of what as then considered to be a monotypic genus. [1] [2] This taxon is included in the subfamily Tetraroginae within the Scorpaenidae in the 5th edition of Fishes of the World [3] however other authorities place that subfamily within the stonefish family Synanceiidae, [1] while other authorities classify this subfamily as a family in its own right. [4] The genus name combines neo which means "new" with the genus name Centropogon , which this genus appears similar to and the type species was originally classified within the genus Paracentropogon . [5]

Species

Six recognized species are in this genus: [4]

Characteristics

Neocentropogon wapfishes are characterised by having an oblique dorsal profile of the head, bodies which are covered in cycloid scales, teeth on the palatine and between 13 and 16 spines in the dorsal fin. The rearmost ray of the dorsal fin is connected to the uppermost ray of the caudal fin by a membrane. There is a single spine and 5 soft rays in the pelvic fin and the lowermost four rays of the pectoral fin are separated from the upper rays with their tips free of the basal membrane which connects them. [6] The largest species is the threespotted waspfish (N. trimaculatus) which has a maximum published standard length of 81 cm (32 in), [7] although most species are much smaller than this, having lengths of less than 20 cm (7.9 in). [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Tetraroginae". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 23 March 2022.
  2. ↑ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Neocentropogon". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 23 March 2022.
  3. ↑ J. S. Nelson; T. C. Grande; M. V. H. Wilson (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Wiley. pp. 468–475. ISBN   978-1-118-34233-6.
  4. 1 2 3 Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2022). Species of Neocentropogon in FishBase . February 2022 version.
  5. ↑ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara, eds. (10 March 2022). "Order Perciformes (Part 10): Suborder Scorpaenoidei: Families Apistidae, Tetrarogidae, Synanceiidae, Aploacrinidae, Perryenidae, Eschmeyeridae, Pataceidae, Gnathanacanthidae, Congiopodidae and Zanclorhynchidae". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
  6. ↑ Sirikanya Chungthanawong; Hiroyuki Motomura (2021). "Review of the waspfish genus Neocentropogon (Tetrarogidae), with a key to genera in the family". Ichthyological Research. 68: 404–425. doi:10.1007/s10228-020-00796-w.
  7. ↑ S.G. Poss (1999). "Scorpaenidae". In Carpenter, K. E. and V. H. Niem (eds.). Species identification guide for fisheries purposes. The living marine resources of the western central Pacific. Bony fishes part 2 (Mugilidae to Carangidae) (PDF). FAO, Rome.
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