Stingfish

Stingfish
	Minous versicolor
Systematics
	Perch relatives (Percomorphaceae)
Order :	Perch-like (Perciformes)
Subordination :	Scorpionfish relatives (Scorpaenoidei)
Family :	Stonefish (Synanceiidae)
Subfamily :	Minoinae
Genre :	Stingfish
Scientific name of the subfamily
	Minoinae
	Jordan & Starks , 1904
Scientific name of the genus
	Minous
	Cuvier , 1829

The stingfish ( Minous ) are a genus of stone fish (Synanceiidae). They occur at depths of 10 to 420 meters on sandy and muddy seabeds in the tropical Indo-Pacific .

features

Stingfish grow to a length of 7.5 to 15 cm. Their body is smooth with no spines or skin tags. The lowest rays of their pectoral fins are isolated from the other eleven fin rays and can be used to "run" across the sea floor like a gurnard . Their tips are provided with peculiar "caps". The dorsal fin is supported by 8 to 12 fin spines and 10 to 14 soft rays (with one type 4 spines and 18 soft rays). The anal fin has two fin spines and 7 to 11 soft rays, the pelvic fins one thorn and five soft rays. All soft rays are undivided. The number of vertebrae is 24 to 27. A swim bladder may be present or absent.

species

Fishbase lists twelve species. There are also three more, which were described in mid-2018.

Minous monodactylus

Minous andriashevi Mandrytsa, 1990
Minous coccineus Alcock, 1890
Minous dempsterae Eschmeyer, Hallacher & Rama-Rao, 1979
Minous groeneveldi Matsunuma & Motomura, 2018
Minous inermis Alcock, 1889
Minous longimanus Regan, 1908
Minous monodactylus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
Minous pictus Günther, 1880
Minous pusillus Temminck & Schlegel, 1843
Minous quincarinatus (Fowler, 1943)
Minous radiatus Matsunuma & Motomura, 2018
Minous roseus Matsunuma & Motomura, 2018
Minous trachycephalus (Bleeker, 1854)
Minous usachevi Mandrytsa, 1993
Minous versicolor Ogilby, 1910

literature

Joseph S. Nelson : Fishes of the World , John Wiley & Sons, 2006, ISBN 0-471-25031-7 .

Individual evidence

↑ Minous on Fishbase.org (English)
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Matsunuma, M. & Motomura, H. (2018): Three new species of the Indo-Pacific stingfish genus Minous (Synanceiidae: Minoinae) with redescriptions of M. trachycephalus (Bleeker 1855) and M. pictus Günther 1880 . Zootaxa , 4455 (2): 201-257.

Web links

Commons : Minous - collection of images, videos and audio files

Minous on Fishbase.org (English)

[1] Minous on Fishbase.org (English)

[Matsunuma&Motomura-2] Matsunuma, M. & Motomura, H. (2018): Three new species of the Indo-Pacific stingfish genus Minous (Synanceiidae: Minoinae) with redescriptions of M. trachycephalus (Bleeker 1855) and M. pictus Günther 1880 . Zootaxa , 4455 (2): 201-257.