Ebosia

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Megaclassis: Osteichthyes
Superclassis/Classis: Actinopterygii
Classis/Subclassis: Actinopteri
Subclassis/Infraclassis: Neopterygii
Infraclassis: Teleostei
Megacohors: Osteoglossocephalai
Supercohors: Clupeocephala
Cohors: Euteleosteomorpha
Subcohors: Neoteleostei
Infracohors: Eurypterygia
Sectio: Ctenosquamata
Subsectio: Acanthomorphata
Divisio/Superordo: Acanthopterygii
Ordo: Scorpaeniformes
Subordo: Scorpaenoidei

Familia: Scorpaenidae
Subfamilia: Pteroinae
Genus: Ebosia
Species: E. bleekeri – E. falcata – E. saya – E. vespertina
Name

Ebosia Jordan & Starks, 1904

Type species: Pterois bleekeri Döderlein, 1884
References

Jordan, D.S. & Starks, E.C., 1904: A review of the scorpaenoid fishes of Japan. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 27 (1351): 91–175, Pls. 1-2. BHL Reference page.

Links

Ebosia and its species (including synonyms) in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2023. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
Ebosia species list in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2023. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2023.

Ebosia is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Scorpaenidae, the scorpionfishes. They are known as falcate lionfishes. They are native to the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
Taxonomy

Ebosia was described as a genus in 1904 by the American ichthyologists David Starr Jordan and Edwin Chapin Starks in 1904 with Pterois bleekeri, which had been described in 1884 by Ludwig Heinrich Philipp Döderlein from Tokyo, as the type species.[1] This genus is classified within the tribe Pteroini of the subfamily Scorpaeninae within the family Scorpaenidae.[2] The genus name is a latinisation of eboshi, a type of helmet which bears some resemblance to the parietal crests shown by the males in this genus.[3]
Species

There are currently 4 recognized species in this genus:[4]
Image Scientific Name Common Name Distribution
Ebosia bleekeri (Döderlein, 1884) Bleeker's lionfish southern Japan to Hong Kong, Also from Australia, Taiwan, China and Korea
Ebosia falcata Eschmeyer & Rama Rao, 1978 Falcate lionfish Somalia, Pakistan and the west coast of India and off the Andaman Sea coast of Thailand.
Ebosia saya Matsunuma & Motomura, 2014[5] Saya lionfish Saya de Malha Bank
Ebosia vespertina Matsunuma & Motomura, 2015 [6] Western falcate lionfish Mozambique and the east coast of South Africa, Madagascar
Characteristics

Ebosia lionfishes are characterised by having the bases of the spines on the nuchal, parietal and coronal bones being continuous with the parietal spine being longer and, in males, creates a slender, bony crest.[5] These lionfishes vary in size from a maximum published standard length of 8.7 cm (3.4 in) in E. falcata to 22 cm (8.7 in) in E. bleekeri.[4]
Distribution and habitat

Ebosia lionfishes are found in the Indo-Pacific from the eastern coast of Africa between Somalia and South Africa across the Indian Ocean and eastwards into the Pacific Ocean as far as eastern Australia, north to Japan, Korea and China.[4] These fishes are found where there is a sandy or muddy substrates at depths of normally less than 100 m (330 ft).[6]
Biology

Ebosia lionfishes are, like other scorpionfishes, predatory. E. bleekeri is known to feed on small fishes and crustaceans.[7]
References

Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Scorpaenbidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 2 March 2022.
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.
Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara, eds. (2 October 2021). "Order Perciformes (Part 9): Suborder Scorpaenoidei: Family Scorpaenidae". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 2 March 2022.
Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2022). Species of Ebosia in FishBase. February 2022 version.
Matsunuma, M. & Motomura, H. (2014). "A new species of scorpionfish, Ebosia saya (Scorpaenidae: Pteroinae), from the western Indian Ocean and notes on fresh coloration of Ebosia falcata". Ichthyological Research. 62 (3): 293–312.
Matsunuma, M. & Motomura, H. (2015). "A new species of scorpionfish, Ebosia vespertina (Scorpaenidae: Pteroinae), from the southwestern Indian Ocean". Ichthyological Research. 63 (1): 110–120.
Bob Goemans (2012). "Ebosia bleekeri (Doderlein, 1884) Bleeker's Lionfish". Saltcorner Fish Library. Bob Goemans. Retrieved 2 March 2022.