''Neosebastes'' is a

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of marine

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es, belonging to the

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Neosebastinae Neosebastidae, the gurnard scorpionfishes or gurnard perches, is a small family of deep-sea ray-finned fishes. It is part of the suborder Scorpaenoidei within the order Perciformes. These fishes are found in the Indian and Pacific oceans. Sever ...

, the gurnard scorpionfishes, part of the

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Scorpaenidae The Scorpaenidae (also known as scorpionfish) are a family (biology), family of mostly ocean, marine fish that includes many of the world's most venomous species. As their name suggests, scorpionfish have a type of "sting" in the form of sharp ...

. These fishes are found in the

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Taxonomy

Neosebastes was first described as a genus in 1867 by the French zoologist Alphonse Guichenot. In 1876 Pieter Bleeker designated Scorpaena panda, which had been described by John Richardson in 1842 from Cockburn Sound in Western Australia, as the type species of the genus. The genus name is a compound of ''neo'' meaning "new" and ''Sebastes'', as, when he coined the name, Guichenot thought that the new genus was closely related to or was a subgenus of the genus ''

Sebastes ''Sebastes'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the subfamily Sebastinae part of the family Scorpaenidae, most of which have the common name of rockfish. A few are called ocean perch, sea perch or redfish instead. They are found ...

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Species

There are currently 12 recognized species in this genus: * '' Neosebastes bougainvillii'' ( G. Cuvier, 1829) (Gulf gurnard perch) * '' Neosebastes capricornis'' Motomura, 2004 (Capricorn gurnard perch) * '' Neosebastes entaxis''

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& Starks, 1904 (Oriental gurnard perch) * '' Neosebastes incisipinnis'' J. D. Ogilby, 1910 (Incised gurnard perch) * '' Neosebastes johnsoni'' Motomura, 2004 (Johnson's gurnard perch) * '' Neosebastes longirostris'' Motomura, 2004 (Long-snout gurnard perch) * '' Neosebastes multisquamus'' Motomura, 2004 (Ogasawara gurnard perch) Yoshikawa, A. & Kai, Y. (2016): Revised diagnosis and genetic divergence of a poorly known scorpionfish, ''Neosebastes multisquamus'' (Scorpaeniformes: Neosebastidae). ''Marine Biodiversity, 48 (2): 1255–1259.'' * '' Neosebastes nigropunctatus'' McCulloch, 1915 (Black-spotted gurnard perch) * '' Neosebastes occidentalis'' Motomura, 2004 (Orange-banded gurnard perch) * '' Neosebastes pandus'' ( J. Richardson, 1842) (Rough gurnard perch) * '' Neosebastes scorpaenoides'' Guichenot, 1867 (Ruddy gurnard perch) * '' Neosebastes thetidis'' ( Waite, 1899) (Thetis gurnard perch)

References

Neosebastinae Marine fish genera Taxa named by Alphonse Guichenot {{Scorpaeniformes-stub