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Owstonia aurora Liao, Reyes & Shao, 2022

Aurora’s bandfish
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Teleostei (teleosts) > Eupercaria/misc (Various families in series Eupercaria) > Cepolidae (Bandfishes) > Owstoniinae
Etymology: Owstonia: Named for Alan Owston (1853‒1915), an amateur naturalist, yachtsman and collector of Asian wildlife, notably fishes from Japan and China.;  aurora: Named for the 'Aurora 2007' Philippine Expedition, a project under the Census of Philippine Deep-Sea Biodiversity..

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Marine; demersal; depth range 342 - 358 m (Ref. 127466). Tropical

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Western Pacific: Philippines.

Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 7.5 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 127466); 8.8 cm SL (female)

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Dorsal spines (total): 3; Dorsal soft rays (total): 21; Anal spines: 1; Anal soft rays: 14; Vertebrae: 28. This species is distinguished by the following set of characters: D III, 21; A I,14; gill rakers on first arch 35-38; scales on cheek 80-86 in 7-8 rows; lateral line unbranched, not forming loop in front of dorsal fin, and ending below 17th-22nd dorsal-fin soft rays; oblique body scales rows in mid-lateral series 54-58; lower margin of the preopercles rounded; a prominent black blotch on anterior dorsalfin membrane, which extend downward to dorsal-fin base, the remaining membrane of dorsal, anal, and caudal fins are red with white margins and bases, distinct white stripes on mid dorsal and caudal fin membranes; membranes between the maxillary and premaxillary with discontinuous black stripes or patches (Ref. 127466).

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

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Liao, Y.-C., R.B. Reyes Jr. and K.-T. Shao, 2022. Owstonia aurora (Perciformes: Cepolidae: Owstoniinae), a new bandfish from the Philippines. Zootaxa 5189(1):122-130. (Ref. 127466)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

  Not Evaluated 

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





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AFORO (otoliths) | Aquatic Commons | BHL | Cloffa | BOLDSystems | Websites from users | Check FishWatcher | CISTI | Catalog of Fishes: genus, species | DiscoverLife | ECOTOX | FAO - Publication: search | Faunafri | Fishipedia | Fishtrace | GenBank: genome, nucleotide | GloBI | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | IGFA World Record | MitoFish | Otolith Atlas of Taiwan Fishes | PubMed | Reef Life Survey | Socotra Atlas | Tree of Life | Wikipedia: Go, Search | World Records Freshwater Fishing | Zoobank | Zoological Record

Estimates based on models

Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref. 82804):  PD50 = No PD50 data   [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Trophic level (Ref. 69278):  3.2   ±0.4 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives
Resilience (Ref. 120179):  High, minimum population doubling time less than 15 months (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 59153):  Low vulnerability (10 of 100).