Neomerinthe
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| Neomerinthe | |
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| Neomerinthe hemingwayi | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Suborder: | Scorpaenoidei |
| Family: | Scorpaenidae |
| Subfamily: | Scorpaeninae |
| Genus: | Neomerinthe Fowler, 1935 |
| Type species | |
| Neomerinthe hemingwayi Fowler, 1935[1] | |
Neomerinthe is a genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Scorpaenidae, the scorpionfishes. They are found in Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Ocean.
Neomerinthe was first described as a genus in 1935 by the American ichthyologist Henry Weed Fowler, Fowler was describing N. hemingwayi, with a type locality given as off Cape May, New Jersey, which he designated as the type species of a new genus.[1] The genus name is a compound of neo, meaning new, and Merinthe, a synonym of the genus Pontinus, which Fowler thought N. hemingwayi resembled.[2]
Species
Neomerinthe has 12 species classified within it:[3]
- Neomerinthe amplisquamiceps (Fowler, 1938) (Orange scorpionfish)
- Neomerinthe bauchotae Poss & Duhamel, 1991
- Neomerinthe beanorum (Evermann & M. C. Marsh, 1900)
- Neomerinthe costata
- Neomerinthe erostris (Alcock, 1896) (Round scorpionfish) [4]
- Neomerinthe folgori (Postel & C. Roux, 1964) (Folger's scorpionfish)
- Neomerinthe hemingwayi Fowler, 1935 (Spiny-cheek scorpionfish)
- Neomerinthe megalepis (Fowler, 1938)
- Neomerinthe naevosa Motomura, Béarez & Causse, 2011 (Blotched Polynesian scorpionfish) [5]
- Neomerinthe pallidimacula (Fowler, 1938) (Three-striped scorpionfish) [6]
- Neomerinthe parallelaspina
- Neomerinthe procurva L. C. Chen, 1981 (Curved-spine scorpionfish)
- Neomerinthe rufescens (C. H. Gilbert, 1905)
