Inegocia

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Genus of fishes

title: "Inegocia" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["platycephalidae", "marine-fish-genera", "taxa-named-by-david-starr-jordan"] description: "Genus of fishes" topic_path: "general/platycephalidae" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inegocia" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

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| image = Inegocia harrisii.jpg | image_caption = Harris' flathead (I. harrisii) | image2 = Inegocia japonica.jpg | image2_caption = Japanese flathead (I. japonica) | taxon = Inegocia | authority = D. S. Jordan & W. F. Thompson, 1913 | type_species = Platycephalus japonicus | type_species_authority = Tilesius, 1814

Inegocia is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Platycephalidae, the flatheads. These fishes are found in the Indo-Pacific region.

Taxonomy

Inegocia was first proposed as a genus in 1913 by the American ichthyologists David Starr Jordan and William Francis Thompson with Platycephalus japonicus, which had been described by the German naturalist Wilhelm Gottlieb Tilesius von Tilenau in 1814, as the type species. Tilesius name was originally published in Cyrillic script and in 1829 Cuvier published the name in Latin script, and this is the accepted name under the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. The genus name Inegocia is a latinisation of inegochi, which means "rice flathead", a Japanese common name for I. japonica. Gochi, which is also spelled kochi, is a general Japanese name for flatheads and dragonets.

Species

Inegocia contains three recognised species:

Characteristics

Inegocia flatheads are characterised by the possession of a long iris lappet which is branched dorsally. They do not have an obvious pit on the rear margin of the orbit. They also do not have sensory tubes in the cheek area between the suborbital and the preoperculum. In addition, there is a clear flap between the eyes. The smallest of the three species is I. harrisi with a maximum published total length of 24 cm and the largest is I. ochiaii with a maximum published standard length of 44.4 cm.

Distribution

Inegocia flatheads are found in the eastern Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean, from Sri Lanka in the west to the Philippines, north to Japan and south to Australia.

References

References

  1. {{Cof family
  2. (2016). "Fishes of the World". Wiley.
  3. (7 December 2021). "Order Perciformes (Part 11): Suborder Platycephaloidei: Families Bembridae, Parabembridae, Hoplichthyidae, Platycephalidae and Plectrogeniidae". Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara.
  4. {{FishBase genus. (2022)
  5. Hisashi Imamura. (2010). "A New Species of the Flathead Genus ''Inegocia'' (Teleostei: Platycephalidae) from East Asia". Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science, Series A.

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