Owstonia

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
Subdivisio: Percomorphaceae
Series: Eupercaria
Ordo: Priacanthiformes
Superfamilia: Cepoloidea

Familia: Cepolidae
Genus: Owstonia
Species: O. ainonaka – O. contodon – O. crassa – O. dispar – O. dorypterus – O. elongata – O. fallax – O. geminata – O. grammodon – O. hastata – O. hawaiiensis – O. ignota – O. kamoharai – O. lepiota – O. maccullochi – O. melanoptera – O. merensis – O. mundyi – O. nalani – O. nudibucca – O. poliourus – O. psilos – O. raredonae – O. rhamma – O. scottensis – O. similis – O. simoterus – O. tosaensis – O. totomiensis – O. weberi – O. whiteheadi
Name

Owstonia Tanaka, 1908

Type species: Owstonia totomiensis Tanaka, 1908

Synonyms

Loxopseudochromis Fowler, 1934
Opsipseudochromis Fowler, 1934
Parasphenanthias Gilchrist, 1922
Sphenanthias Weber, 1913

References

Tanaka, S. 1908. Notes on some Japanese fishes, with descriptions of fourteen new species. Journal of the College of Science, Imperial University of Tokyo 23(7): 1–54, Pls. 1–4. BHL Reference page.

Smith-Vaniz, W.F. & Johnson, G.D. 2016. Hidden diversity in deep-water bandfishes: review of Owstonia with descriptions of twenty-one new species (Teleostei: Cepolidae: Owstoniinae). Zootaxa 4187(1): 1–103. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4187.1.1. Full article (PDF) ISBN 978-1-77670-012-7 (paperback); ISBN 978-1-77670-013-4 (Online edition) Reference page.

Links

Owstonia – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
Owstonia species list in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.
Eschmeyer, W. N. Catalog of Fishes electronic version

Vernacular names
日本語: ソコアマダイ属

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 was described in 1908 by the Japanese ichthyologist Shigeho Tanaka with the type species designated as Owstonia totomiensis due to it being the only species in a monotypic genus at the time of its description.[1] In 1913 Tanaka, along with the American ichthyologists David Starr Jordan and John Otterbein Snyder, created the family Owstonidae for this genus.[3] The family was merged with the Cepolidae as a subfamily in 1956[4] and is now regarded as a subfamily, Owstoninae, of the Cepolidae.[5] The name of the genus, Owstonia. means "belonging to Owston". This name refers to a specimen of O. totomiensis being found in the collection of Alan Owston.[6]
Species

There are currently 36 recognized species in this genus:[7][4]

Owstonia ainonaka Smith-Vaniz & G. D. Johnson, 2016
Owstonia contodon Smith-Vaniz & G. D. Johnson, 2016
Owstonia crassa Smith-Vaniz & G. D. Johnson, 2016
Owstonia dispar Smith-Vaniz & G. D. Johnson, 2016
Owstonia doryptera (Fowler, 1934)
Owstonia elongata Smith-Vaniz & G. D. Johnson, 2016
Owstonia fallax Smith-Vaniz & G. D. Johnson, 2016
Owstonia geminata Smith-Vaniz & G. D. Johnson, 2016
Owstonia grammodon (Fowler, 1934)
Owstonia hastata 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, 2015 (Kamohara's bandfish) [8]
Owstonia lepiota Smith-Vaniz & G. D. Johnson, 2016
Owstonia maccullochi Whitley, 1934 (McCulloch's bandfish)
Owstonia macrophthalma (Fourmanoir, 1985)
Owstonia melanoptera Smith-Vaniz & G. D. Johnson, 2016
Owstonia merensis Smith-Vaniz & G. D. Johnson, 2016
Owstonia mundyi Smith-Vaniz & G. D. Johnson, 2016
Owstonia nalani Smith-Vaniz & G. D. Johnson, 2016
Owstonia nigromarginata (Fourmanoir, 1985)
Owstonia nudibucca Smith-Vaniz & G. D. Johnson, 2016
Owstonia psilos Smith-Vaniz & G. D. Johnson, 2016
Owstonia raredonae Smith-Vaniz & G. D. Johnson, 2016
Owstonia rhamma Smith-Vaniz & G. D. Johnson, 2016
Owstonia sarmiento Y. C. Liao, Reyes & K. T. Shao, 2009
Owstonia scottensis Smith-Vaniz & G. D. Johnson, 2016
Owstonia sibogae (M. C. W. Weber, 1913) (Comb bandfish)
Owstonia similis Smith-Vaniz & G. D. Johnson, 2016
Owstonia simotera (J. L. B. Smith, 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.[9] They vary in maximum total length from 5.4 cm (2.1 in) in O. nalani to 52 cm (20 in) in O. weberi.[7]
Distribution and habitat

Owstonia bandfishes are found in the Indo-Pacific region from the eastern coast of Africa as far east as Hawaii.[7] They are found in deep water.[5] 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.[4]
References

Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Cepolidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 14 August 2021.
Richard van der Laan; William N. Eschmeyer & Ronald Fricke (2014). "Family-group names of Recent fishes". Zootaxa. 3882 (2): 001–230. Retrieved 24 July 2021.
David Starr Jordan; Shigeho Tanaka; and John Otterbein Snyder (1913). "A catalogue of the fishes of Japan". The Journal of the College of Science, Imperial University of Tokyo, Japan. 33: 1–479.
W.F. Smith-Vaniz & G.D. Johnson (2016). "Hidden diversity in deep-water bandfishes: review of Owstonia with descriptions of twenty-one new species (Teleostei: Cepolidae: Owstoniinae)". Zootaxa. 4187 (1): 1–103. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4187.1.1. PMID 27988769.
J. S. Nelson; T. C. Grande; M. V. H. Wilson (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Wiley. pp. 461–462. ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6.
Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara, eds. (3 September 2020). "Order Priacanthiformes: Families Priacanthidae and Cepolidae". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 14 August 2021.
Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2021). Species of Owstonia in FishBase. June 2021 version.
Endo, H.; Liao, Y.-C. & Matsuura, K. (2015). "Owstonia kamoharai (Perciformes: Cepolidae), a new bandfish from Japan". Ichthyological Research. 63 (1): 31–38. doi:10.1007/s10228-015-0468-5.
Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2021). "Cepolidae" in FishBase. June 2021 version.