''Owstonia'' is a
genus
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of marine
ray-finned fish
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belonging to the
family
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Cepolidae
The bandfishes, family Cepolidae, are 23 species of marine ray-finned fishes, They are native to the East Atlantic and Indo-Pacific wherethey dig burrows in sandy or muddy seabeds and eat zooplankton.
Taxonomy
The bandfishes belong to the famil ...
, the
bandfish
The bandfishes, family Cepolidae, are 23 species of marine ray-finned fishes, They are native to the East Atlantic and Indo-Pacific wherethey dig burrows in sandy or muddy seabeds and eat zooplankton.
Taxonomy
The bandfishes belong to the famil ...
es. It is the only genus in the
monotypic
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subfamily
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Owstoninae. They are found in deep-waters of the
Indian
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and
Pacific Ocean
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.
Taxonomy
''Owstonia'' was
described in 1908 by the Japanese
ichthyologist
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Shigeho Tanaka with the
type species
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designated as ''Owstonia totomiensis'' due to it being the only species in a monotypic genus at the time of its description.
[ In 1913 Tanaka, along with the American ichthyologists ]David Starr Jordan
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and John Otterbein Snyder
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History
As a student he met David Starr Jordan who inspired him to enter zoology. He eventually became a zoo ...
, created the family Owstonidae for this genus.[ and is now regarded as a subfamily, Owstoninae, of the Cepolidae.]specimen
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of ''O. totomiensis'' being found in the collection of Alan Owston.
Species
There are currently 36 recognized species in this genus:Owstonia grammodon
''Owstonia'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Cepolidae, the bandfishes. It is the only genus in the monotypic subfamily Owstoninae. They are found in deep-waters of the Indian and Pacific Ocean.
Taxonomy
''Owstonia'' ...
'' (Fowler, 1934)
* ''Owstonia hastata
''Owstonia'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Cepolidae, the bandfishes. It is the only genus in the monotypic subfamily Owstoninae. They are found in deep-waters of the Indian and Pacific Ocean.
Taxonomy
''Owstonia'' ...
'' Smith-Vaniz & G. D. Johnson, 2016
* '' Owstonia hawaiiensis'' Smith-Vaniz & G. D. Johnson, 2016
* '' Owstonia ignota'' Smith-Vaniz & G. D. Johnson, 2016
* '' Owstonia japonica'' Kamohara, 1935
* '' Owstonia kamoharai'' Endo, Y. C. Liao & Matsuura
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, 2015 (Kamohara's bandfish) J. L. B. Smith
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, 1968)
* '' Owstonia taeniosoma'' (Kamohara, 1935)
* '' Owstonia tosaensis'' Kamohara, 1934
* '' Owstonia totomiensis'' S. Tanaka, 1908 (Short-tail bandfish)
* '' Owstonia weberi'' ( Gilchrist, 1922)
* '' Owstonia whiteheadi'' ( Talwar, 1973) (Indian bandfish)
Characteristics
''Owstonia'' bandfishes differ from the two genera in the subfamily Cepolinae by being less elongate, having only 27-33 vertebrae and 19-26 soft rays in their dorsal fin. Their dorsal and anal fins not attached to the lanceoloate caudal fin.total length
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Overall length
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from in ''O. nalani'' to in ''O. weberi''.[
]
Distribution, habitat and habitat
''Owstonia'' bandfishes are found in the Indo-Pacific region from the eastern coast of Africa as far east as Hawaii.[ They are found in deep water.][ Unlike the Cepoline bandfishes the fishes in ''Owstonia'' are not, other than one species, burrowers in soft substrates. They are found over rocky substrates swimming close to the bottom particularly on the upper continental slope, around atolls or oceanic fragments of crust. The exception is ''O. taeniosoma'' which has a more elongated body than its congeners and is found over sand or mud bottoms on the ]continental shelf
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.[
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References
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Cepolidae
Ray-finned fish genera
Taxa named by Shigeho Tanaka