Ocosia
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| Ocosia | |
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| Ocosia vespa | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Scorpaenidae |
| Subfamily: | Tetraroginae |
| Genus: | Ocosia D. S. Jordan & Starks, 1904 |
| Type species | |
| Ocosia vespa Jordan & Starks, 1904[1] | |
Ocosia is a genus of ray-finned fishes, waspfishes belonging to the subfamily Tetraroginae, which is classified as part of the family Scorpaenidae, the scorpionfishes and their relatives. These fish are found in the Indian Ocean and western Pacific Ocean.
Ocosia was originally described as a monotypic genus in 1904 by the American ichthyologists David Starr Jordan and Edwin Chapin Starks when they were describing Ocosia vespa as a new species with its type locality given as Sagami Bay in Japan.[1] This taxon is included in the subfamily Tetraroginae within the Scorpaenidae in the 5th edition of Fishes of the World[2] however other authorities place that subfamily within the stonefish family Synanceiidae,[1] while other authorities classify this subfamily as a family in its own right.[3] The genus name Ocosia is a latinisation of the Japanese word for venomous fishes in the Scorpaeniformes, okoze.[4]