Inegocia
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| Inegocia | |
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| Harris' flathead (I. harrisii) | |
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| Japanese flathead (I. japonica) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Scorpaeniformes |
| Family: | Platycephalidae |
| Genus: | Inegocia D. S. Jordan & W. F. Thompson, 1913 |
| Type species | |
| Platycephalus japonicus | |
Inegocia is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Platycephalidae, the flatheads. These fishes are found in the Indo-Pacific region.
Inegocia was first proposed as a genus in 1913 by the American ichthyologists David Starr Jordan and William Francis Thompson with Platycephalus japonicus, which had been described by the German naturalist Wilhelm Gottlieb Tilesius von Tilenau in 1814, as the type species. Tilesius name was originally published in Cyrillic script and in 1829 Cuvier published the name in Latin script, and this is the accepted name under the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature.[1] This genus is classified within the family Playtcephalidae, the flatheads which the 5th edition of Fishes of the World classifies within the suborder Platycephaloidei in the order Scorpaeniformes.[2] The genus name Inegocia is a latinisation of inegochi, which means "rice flathead", a Japanese common name for I. japonica. Gochi, which is also spelled kochi, is a general Japanese name for flatheads and dragonets.[3]
Species
Inegocia contains three recognised species:[4]
- Inegocia harrisii (McCulloch, 1914) (Harris's flathead)
- Inegocia japonica (G. Cuvier, 1829) (Japanese flathead)
- Inegocia ochiaii Imamura, 2010