Hozukius
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| Hozukius | |
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| Hozukius emblemarius | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Suborder: | Scorpaenoidei |
| Family: | Scorpaenidae |
| Subfamily: | Sebastinae |
| Genus: | Hozukius Matsubara, 1934 |
| Type species | |
| Helicolenus emblemarius | |
Hozukius is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the subfamily Sebastinae within the family Scorpaenidae. They are native to the northwestern Pacific Ocean.
Hozukius was described as a monotypic genus in 1934 by the Japanese ichthyologist Kiyomatsu Matsubara with Helicolenus emblemarius which had been described by David Starr Jordan and Edith Chapin Starks in 1904 with its type locality given as Okinose, near Misaki in Japan its only species.[2][1] A second species, H. guyotensis, was described in 1975.[3] The genus name is probably derived from hozuki, the Japanese name for the flowering plant Physalis alkekengi, which has bright red or orange fruit and is a traditional component of Japanese Buddhist culture, its bright-red colour being similar to that of H. emblemarius.[4]
Species
There are currently two recognised species in this genus:[3]
- Hozukius emblemarius (D. S. Jordan & Starks, 1904)
- Hozukius guyotensis Barsukov & Fedorov, 1975