- Classification
- ACTINOPTERYGII
- PERCIFORMES
- CEPOLIDAE
- Owstonia
- taeniosoma
Owstonia taeniosoma (Kamohara 1935)

Owstonia taeniosoma, from off Newcastle, New South Wales, AMS I.33445–002, 83 mm SL, depth 62-77 m, April 1992. Source: Ken J Graham / NSW Fisheries. License: CC by Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Cite this page as:
Bray, D.J. 2022, Owstonia taeniosoma in Fishes of Australia, accessed 24 Mar 2023, https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/species/5384
Owstonia taeniosoma (Kamohara 1935)
More Info
Distribution |
Off Newcastle, New South Wales (62-77 m). Elsewhere, the species is known from Japan, Taiwan and the Andaman Sea. |
Etymology |
The specific name taeniosoma is from the Greek taenia (= band, ribbon) and soma (= body) in reference to the elongate body of this species. |
Species Citation |
Pseudocepola taeniosoma Kamohara 1935, Annotationes Zoologicae Japonenses 15(1): 136, fig. 4. Type locality: off Mimase, near Kôchi Prefecture, Tosa, Japan. |
Author |
Bray, D.J. 2022 |
Resources |
Owstonia taeniosoma (Kamohara 1935)
References
Kamohara, T. 1935. On the Owstoniidae of Japan. Annotationes Zoologicae Japonenses 15(1): 130-138
Smith-Vaniz, W.F. & Johnson, G.D. 2016. Hidden diversity in deep-water bandfishes: review of Owstonia with descriptions of twenty-one new species (Teleostei: Cepolidae: Owstoniinae). Zootaxa 4187(1): 1–103 https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4187.1.1