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{{Short description|Genus of fishes}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Owstonia sibogae.jpg
| image_upright = 1.1
| image_caption = ''Owstonia sibogae''
| parent_authority = [[David Starr Jordan|Jordan]], Tanaka & [[John Otterbein Snyder|Snyder]], 1913<ref name = VDLEF>{{cite journal | author1 = Richard van der Laan | author2 = William N. Eschmeyer | author3 = Ronald Fricke | name-list-style = amp | year = 2014 | title = Family-group names of Recent fishes | url = https://www.researchgate.net/publication/268078514 | journal = Zootaxa | volume = 3882 | issue = 2 | pages = 001–230 | access-date = 24 July 2021}}</ref>
| taxon = Owstonia
| authority = [[Shigeho Tanaka|S. Tanaka]], 1908<ref name = CofF>{{Cof family | family = Cepolidae | access-date = 14 August 2021}}</ref>
| type_species = ''Owstonia totomiensis''
| type_species_authority = Tanaka, 1908<ref name = CofF/>
| synonyms =
''Parasphenanthias'' <small>[[John Gilchrist (zoologist)|Gilchrist]], 1922</small><br />
''Pseudocepola'' <small>[[Toshiji Kamohara|Kamohara]], 1935</small><br />
''Sphenanthias'' <small>[[Max Weber (biologist)|Weber]], 1913</small>
| synonyms_ref = <ref name = CofF/>
}}
'''''Owstonia''''' is a [[genus]] of marine [[ray-finned fish]] belonging to the [[family (biology)|family]] [[Cepolidae]], the [[bandfish]]es. It is the only genus in the [[Monotypy|monotypic]] [[Subfamily (biology)|subfamily]] '''Owstoninae'''. They are found in deep waters of the [[Indian Ocean|Indian]] and [[Pacific Ocean]].
==Taxonomy==
''Owstonia'' was [[Species description|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.<ref name = CofF/> In 1913 Tanaka, along with the American ichthyologists [[David Starr Jordan]] and [[John Otterbein Snyder]], created the family Owstonidae for this genus.<ref name = JTO1913>{{cite journal | author1 = David Starr Jordan | author2 = Shigeho Tanaka | author3 = John Otterbein Snyder | name-list-style = and | year = 1913 | title = A catalogue of the fishes of Japan | journal = The Journal of the College of Science, Imperial University of Tokyo, Japan | volume = 33 | pages = 1–479 | url = https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7136236#page/9/mode/1up}}</ref> The family was merged with the Cepolidae as a subfamily in 1956<ref name=Smithvaniz2016/> and is now regarded as a subfamily, Owstoninae, of the Cepolidae.<ref name = Nelson5>{{cite book | title=Fishes of the World |edition=5th |author1=J. S. Nelson |author2=T. C. Grande |author3=M. V. H. Wilson |year=2016 |pages=461–462 |publisher=Wiley |isbn= 978-1-118-34233-6 |url=https://sites.google.com/site/fotw5th/ }}</ref> The name of the genus, ''Owstonia''. means "belonging to Owston". This name refers to a [[Zoology specimens|specimen]] of ''O. totomiensis'' being found in the collection of [[Alan Owston]].<ref name = ETYFish>{{cite web | url = https://etyfish.org/priacanthiformes/ | title = Order Priacanthiformes: Families Priacanthidae and Cepolidae | work = The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database | editor1= Christopher Scharpf | editor2 = Kenneth J. Lazara | name-list-style = amp |date = 3 September 2020 | access-date = 14 August 2021 | publisher = Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara}}</ref>
==Species==
There are currently 36 recognized species in this genus:<ref name = Fishbase>{{FishBase genus|genus=Owstonia|month=June|year=2021}}</ref><ref name=Smithvaniz2016>{{cite journal | author1 = W.F. Smith-Vaniz | author2 = G.D. Johnson | name-list-style = amp | year = 2016 | title = Hidden diversity in deep-water bandfishes: review of ''Owstonia'' with descriptions of twenty-one new species (Teleostei: Cepolidae: Owstoniinae) | url = http://www.mapress.com/j/zt/article/view/zootaxa.4187.1.1/9273 | journal = Zootaxa | volume = 4187  | issue =1 | pages = 1–103| doi = 10.11646/zootaxa.4187.1.1 | pmid = 27988769 }}</ref>
* ''[[Owstonia ainonaka]]'' <small>[[William Farr Smith-Vaniz|Smith-Vaniz]] & [[G. David Johnson|G. D. Johnson]], 2016</small>
* ''[[Owstonia contodon]]'' <small>Smith-Vaniz & G. D. Johnson, 2016</small>
* ''[[Owstonia crassa]]'' <small>Smith-Vaniz & G. D. Johnson, 2016</small>
* ''[[Owstonia dispar]]'' <small>Smith-Vaniz & G. D. Johnson, 2016</small>
* ''[[Owstonia doryptera]]'' <small>([[Henry Weed Fowler|Fowler]], 1934)</small>
* ''[[Owstonia elongata]]'' <small>Smith-Vaniz & G. D. Johnson, 2016</small>
* ''[[Owstonia fallax]]'' <small>Smith-Vaniz & G. D. Johnson, 2016</small>
* ''[[Owstonia geminata]]'' <small>Smith-Vaniz & G. D. Johnson, 2016</small>
* ''[[Owstonia grammodon]]'' <small>(Fowler, 1934)</small>
* ''[[Owstonia hastata]]'' <small>Smith-Vaniz & G. D. Johnson, 2016</small>
* ''[[Owstonia hawaiiensis]]'' <small>Smith-Vaniz & G. D. Johnson, 2016</small>
* ''[[Owstonia ignota]]'' <small>Smith-Vaniz & G. D. Johnson, 2016</small>
* ''[[Owstonia japonica]]'' <small>[[Toshiji Kamohara|Kamohara]], 1935</small>
* ''[[Owstonia kamoharai]]'' <small>[[Hiromitsu Endo|Endo]], [[Liao Yun-Chih|Y. C. Liao]] & [[Keiichi Matsuura|Matsuura]], 2015</small> (Kamohara's bandfish) <ref name=Endo2015>{{cite journal | author1 = Endo, H. | author2 = Liao, Y.-C. | author3 = Matsuura, K. | name-list-style = amp | year = 2015 | title = ''Owstonia kamoharai'' (Perciformes: Cepolidae), a new bandfish from Japan | journal = Ichthyological Research | volume = 63 | issue = 1 | pages = 31–38| doi = 10.1007/s10228-015-0468-5 }}</ref>
* ''[[Owstonia lepiota]]'' <small>Smith-Vaniz & G. D. Johnson, 2016</small>
* ''[[Owstonia maccullochi]]'' <small>[[Gilbert Percy Whitley|Whitley]], 1934</small> (McCulloch's bandfish)
* ''[[Owstonia macrophthalma]]'' <small>([[Pierre Fourmanoir|Fourmanoir]], 1985)</small>
* ''[[Owstonia melanoptera]]'' <small>Smith-Vaniz & G. D. Johnson, 2016</small>
* ''[[Owstonia merensis]]'' <small>Smith-Vaniz & G. D. Johnson, 2016</small>
* ''[[Owstonia mundyi]]'' <small>Smith-Vaniz & G. D. Johnson, 2016</small>
* ''[[Owstonia nalani]]'' <small>Smith-Vaniz & G. D. Johnson, 2016</small>
* ''[[Owstonia nigromarginata]]'' <small>(Fourmanoir, 1985)</small>
* ''[[Owstonia nudibucca]]'' <small>Smith-Vaniz & G. D. Johnson, 2016</small>
* ''[[Owstonia psilos]]'' <small>Smith-Vaniz & G. D. Johnson, 2016</small>
* ''[[Owstonia raredonae]]'' <small>Smith-Vaniz & G. D. Johnson, 2016</small>
* ''[[Owstonia rhamma]]'' <small>Smith-Vaniz & G. D. Johnson, 2016</small>
* ''[[Owstonia sarmiento]]'' <small>[[Liao Yun-Chih|Y. C. Liao]], [[Rodolfo B. Reyes Jr.|Reyes]] & [[Shao Kwang-Tsao|K. T. Shao]], 2009</small>
* ''[[Owstonia scottensis]]'' <small>Smith-Vaniz & G. D. Johnson, 2016</small>
* ''[[Owstonia sibogae]]'' <small>([[Max Carl Wilhelm Weber|M. C. W. Weber]], 1913)</small> (Comb bandfish)
* ''[[Owstonia similis]]'' <small>Smith-Vaniz & G. D. Johnson, 2016</small>
* ''[[Owstonia simotera]]'' <small>([[James Leonard Brierley Smith|J. L. B. Smith]], 1968)</small>
* ''[[Owstonia taeniosoma]]'' <small>(Kamohara, 1935)</small>
* ''[[Owstonia tosaensis]]'' <small>Kamohara, 1934</small>
* ''[[Owstonia totomiensis]]'' <small>S. Tanaka, 1908</small> (Short-tail bandfish)
* ''[[Owstonia weberi]]'' <small>([[John Dow Fisher Gilchrist|Gilchrist]], 1922)</small>
* ''[[Owstonia whiteheadi]]'' <small>([[Purnesh Kumar Talwar|Talwar]], 1973)</small> (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.<ref name = Fishbase2>{{FishBase family|family=Cepolidae|month=June|year=2021}}</ref> They vary in maximum [[total length]] from {{cvt|5.4|cm}} in ''O. nalani'' to {{cvt|52|cm}} in ''O. weberi''.<ref name = Fishbase/>
==Distribution and habitat==
''Owstonia'' bandfishes are found in the Indo-Pacific region from the eastern coast of Africa as far east as Hawaii.<ref name = Fishbase/> They are found in deep water.<ref name = Nelson5/> 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 (geology)|crust]]. The exception is ''O. taeniosoma'' which has a more elongated body than its [[Congener (biology)|congener]]s and is found over sand or mud bottoms on the [[continental shelf]].<ref name=Smithvaniz2016/>
==References==
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