Owstonia kamoharai

Taxonavigation: Cepoloidea
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: Owstonia kamoharai

Name

Owstonia kamoharai Endo, Liao & Matsuura, 2015

Holotype: NSMT-P 109686. Paratypes: (5): BSKU 41466, 42457, 74538; FAKU 98751; NSMT-P 114189.

Type locality: Mimase fish market, off Kan-no-ura, Tohyoh Town (northeast of Cape Murotomisaki), Kochi, Shikoku I., Japan, offshore bottom trawl, 200 m depth.

Etymology: Named after the late Dr. Toshiji Kamohara (1901–1972) of Kochi University (Okamura 1972), who greatly contributed to the taxonomy of the Cepolidae.

References

Primary references

Endo, H., Liao, Y.-C. & Matsuura, K. 2015. Owstonia kamoharai (Perciformes: Cepolidae), a new bandfish from Japan. Ichthyological Research 63(1) [2016]: 31–38. DOI: 10.1007/s10228-015-0468-5 Reference page.

Additional references

Oxona, K., Aneesh Kumar, K.V., Sileesh, M., Nikki, R., Rajeesh Kumar, M.P., Hashim, M., & Sudhakar, M. 2020 [2019]. New record of Owstonia kamoharai Endo, Liao and Matsuura, 2015 (Perciformes: Cepolidae) from the northeastern Indian Ocean. Regional Studies in Marine Science 33, 100946. DOI: 10.1016/j.rsma.2019.100946

Links

Owstonia kamoharai in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2024. Catalog of Fishes electronic version, accessed on November 25, 2019.
Owstonia kamoharai in FishBase,
Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2024. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.

Vernacular names

English: Kamohara’s Bandfish
日本語: Oh-soko-amadai