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Owstonia totomiensis Tanaka, 1908

Short-tail 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.;  totomiensis: Name from the combination of Totomi (a former province of Japan) and Latin suffix 'ensis' meaning belonging to (Ref. 119093).
More on author: Tanaka.

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

Marine; benthopelagic; depth range 230 - ? m (Ref. 119093). Tropical

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Northwest Pacific: Japan.

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Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cm
Max length : 50.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 559)

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Inhabits depths around 200 m. Utilized for human consumption.

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Smith-Vaniz, W.F. and G.D. Johnson, 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. (Ref. 119093)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

  Not Evaluated 

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





Human uses

Fisheries: subsistence fisheries
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