''Tosanoides'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...

of marine

ray-finned fish Actinopterygii (; ), members of which are known as ray-finned fishes, is a class of bony fish. They comprise over 50% of living vertebrate species. The ray-finned fishes are so called because their fins are webs of skin supported by bony or h ...

in the subfamily Anthiinae which is part of the

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Serranidae The Serranidae are a large family of fishes belonging to the order Perciformes. The family contains about 450 species in 65 genera, including the sea basses and the groupers (subfamily Epinephelinae). Although many species are small, in some ca ...

, the

grouper Groupers are fish of any of a number of genera in the subfamily Epinephelinae of the family Serranidae, in the order Perciformes. Not all serranids are called "groupers"; the family also includes the sea basses. The common name "grouper" is ...

s and sea basses. They are found in the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean.

Species

There are currently six recognized species in this genus: * '' Tosanoides annepatrice''

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, Copus & Randall, 2018 (Palauan anthias) * '' Tosanoides aphrodite'' Pinheiro, C. R. Rocha & L. A. Rocha, 2018 (Aphrodite anthias) * '' Tosanoides bennetti''

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& F. Walsh, 2019 (Live specimens were for the first time filmed during a 2020 research project in the Coral Sea by Australian scientists.) * '' Tosanoides filamentosus'' Kamohara, 1953 * '' Tosanoides flavofasciatus'' Katayama & Masuda, 1980 * ''

Tosanoides obama ''Tosanoides obama'', Obama's basslet, is a coral reef fish species from the subfamily Anthiinae part of the family Serranidae, the groupers and sea basses. It was discovered in Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, Hawaii. ''Tosanoide ...

& Kosaki, 2016

References

Marine fish genera Anthiinae Taxa named by Toshiji Kamohara {{Serranidae-stub