Parabembras

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Parabembras
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Lateral view of the three species of Parabembras; A P. curta, FAKU 41447, 143.5 mm SL B P. robinsoni, NSMT-P 129791, 165.1 mm SL C P. multisquamata, holotype, MNHN-IC-2008-1516, 167.3 mm SL. White line indicates anus.
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Scorpaeniformes
Family: Bembridae
Genus: Parabembras
Bleeker, 1874
Type species
Bembras curtus

Parabembras is a genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Bembridae, the deepwater flatheads, although they are sufficiently different from the other genera in that family to be classified as their own family, Parabembradidae, by some authorities. These fishes are found in the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean.

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Taxonomy

Parabembras was first described as a genus in 1874 by the Dutch physician, herpetologist and ichthyologist Pieter Bleeker as a monotypic genus with its only species being Bembras curtus. [1] which had been described in 1843 by Temminck and Schlegel from Nagasaki. [2] The 5th edition of Fishes of the World places Parabembras in the family Bembridae with the other deepwater flatheads [3] but other authorities classify it within its own monotypic family, the Parabembradidae. [4] Parabembradidae was first proposed as a family in 1925, with the name then being Parabembridae, by the American ichthyologists David Starr Jordan and Carl Leavitt Hubbs. [5]

Species

The currently recognized species in this genus are: [6] with a new species described in 2018. [4]

Etymology

Parabembras combines para, meaning "near", with Bembras , the type genus of the Bembridae and the original genus of P. curta. [7]

Characteristics

Parabembras differs from the other Bembrid genera by having 3 spines in the anal fin whereas the others have none. The lower jaw protrudes past the lower and the maxilla is narrow to its rear. [8] These flatheads vary in size from P. curta, which has a maximum published standard length of 15.1 cm (5.9 in), to P. robinsoni, which has a maximum published total length of 24 cm (9.4 in). [6]

Distribution and habitat

Parabembras deepwater flatheads are found in the southwestern Indian Ocean and the Western Pacific Ocean. [4] They are demersal to bathydemersal fishes living down to depths of 600 m (2,000 ft). [9] [10]

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References

  1. 1 2 Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Bembridae". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 2 July 2022.
  2. ↑ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Parabembras". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 2 July 2022.
  3. ↑ J. S. Nelson; T. C. Grande; M. V. H. Wilson (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Wiley. pp. 467–495. ISBN   978-1-118-34233-6.
  4. 1 2 3 Yoshiaki Kai; Ronald Fricke (2018). "Taxonomic review of the deep water flathead genus Parabembras with description of the new species Parabembras multisquamata from the western Pacific Ocean". ZooKeys (740): 59–76. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.740.21729 . PMC   5904489 . PMID   29674889.
  5. ↑ Richard van der Laan; William N. Eschmeyer & Ronald Fricke (2014). "Family-group names of Recent fishes". Zootaxa. 3882 (2): 001–230. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1 . PMID   25543675.
  6. 1 2 Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2022). Species of Parabembras in FishBase . February 2022 version.
  7. ↑ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara, eds. (7 December 2021). "Order Perciformes (Part 11): Suborder Platycephaloidei: Families Bembridae, Parabembridae, Hoplichthyidae, Platycephalidae and Plectrogeniidae". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 26 May 2022.
  8. ↑ S.G., Poss (1999). "Bembridae Deepwater flatheads". In Carpenter, K.E.; Niem, V.H. (eds.). FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific. Volume 4. Bony fishes part 2 (Mugilidae to Carangidae). FAO, Rome. pp. 2383–2384. ISBN   9251043019.
  9. ↑ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2022). "Parabembras curta" in FishBase . February 2022 version.
  10. ↑ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2022). "Parabembras robinsoni" in FishBase . February 2022 version.
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