Minous
Minous is a genus of stonefishes native to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean.
| Minous | |
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| Plum-striped stingfish (M. versicolor) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Scorpaeniformes |
| Family: | Synanceiidae |
| Genus: | Minous G. Cuvier, 1829 |
Species
There are currently 12 recognized species in this genus:[1]
- Minous andriashevi Mandritsa, 1990
- Minous coccineus Alcock, 1890 (Onestick stingfish)
- Minous dempsterae Eschmeyer, Hallacher & Rama Rao, 1979 (Oblique-banded stingfish)
- Minous groeneveldi Matsunuma & Motomura, 2018[2]
- Minous inermis Alcock, 1889 (Alcock's scorpionfish)
- Minous longimanus Regan, 1908
- Minous monodactylus (Bloch & J. G. Schneider, 1801) (Grey stingfish)
- Minous pictus Günther, 1880 (Painted stinger)
- Minous pusillus Temminck & Schlegel, 1843 (Dwarf stingfish)
- Minous quincarinatus (Fowler, 1943)
- Minous trachycephalus (Bleeker, 1855) (Striped stingfish)
- Minous usachevi Mandritsa, 1993
- Minous versicolor J. D. Ogilby, 1910 (Plum-striped stingfish)
References
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). Species of Minous in FishBase. December 2012 version.
- MATSUNUMA, MIZUKI; MOTOMURA, HIROYUKI (2018-08-02). "Three new species of the Indo-Pacific stingfish genus Minous (Synanceiidae: Minoinae) with redescriptions of M. trachycephalus (Bleeker 1855) and M. pictus Günther 1880". Zootaxa. 4455 (2): 201–257. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4455.2.1. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 30314209.
External links
- Video of habits on sea floor by Emeric Benhalassa off Bali, Indonesia, 2 June 2017, National Geographic
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