Parabembras

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Genus of fishes

title: "Parabembras" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["bembridae", "parabembras", "taxa-named-by-pieter-bleeker"] description: "Genus of fishes" topic_path: "general/bembridae" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parabembras" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

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| image = Species of Parabembras.jpg | image_caption = Lateral view of the three species of Parabembras; A P. curta, FAKU 41447, 143.5 mm SL B P. robinsoni, NSMT-P 129791, 165.1 mm SL C P. multisquamata, holotype, MNHN-IC-2008-1516, 167.3 mm SL. White line indicates anus. | taxon = Parabembras | authority = Bleeker, 1874 | type_species = Bembras curtus | type_species_authority = Temminck & Schlegel, 1843

Parabembras is a genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Bembridae, the deepwater flatheads, although they are sufficiently different from the other genera in that family to be classified as their own family, Parabembradidae, by some authorities. These fishes are found in the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean.

Taxonomy

Parabembras was first described as a genus in 1874 by the Dutch physician, herpetologist and ichthyologist Pieter Bleeker as a monotypic genus with its only species being Bembras curtus. The 5th edition of Fishes of the World places Parabembras in the family Bembridae with the other deepwater flatheads but other authorities classify it within its own monotypic family, the Parabembradidae. Parabembradidae was first proposed as a family in 1925, with the name then being Parabembridae, by the American ichthyologists David Starr Jordan and Carl Leavitt Hubbs.

Species

The currently recognized species in this genus are: with a new species described in 2018.

Etymology

Parabembras combines para, meaning "near", with Bembras, the type genus of the Bembridae and the original genus of P. curta.

Characteristics

Parabembras differs from the other Bembrid genera by having 3 spines in the anal fin whereas the others have none. The lower jaw protrudes past the lower and the maxilla is narrow to its rear. These flatheads vary in size from P. curta, which has a maximum published standard length of 15.1 cm, to P. robinsoni, which has a maximum published total length of 24 cm.

Distribution and habitat

Parabembras deepwater flatheads are found in the southwestern Indian Ocean and the Western Pacific Ocean.

References

References

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  2. which had been [[Species description. described]] in 1843 by [[Coenraad Jacob Temminck. Temminck]] and [[Hermann Schlegel
  3. (2016). "Fishes of the World". Wiley.
  4. (2018). "Taxonomic review of the deep water flathead genus Parabembras with description of the new species Parabembras multisquamata from the western Pacific Ocean". ZooKeys.
  5. (2014). "Family-group names of Recent fishes". Zootaxa.
  6. {{FishBase genus. (2022)
  7. (7 December 2021). "Order Perciformes (Part 11): Suborder Platycephaloidei: Families Bembridae, Parabembridae, Hoplichthyidae, Platycephalidae and Plectrogeniidae". Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara.
  8. S.G., Poss. (1999). "FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific. Volume 4. Bony fishes part 2 (Mugilidae to Carangidae)". FAO, Rome.
  9. They are demersal to bathydemersal fishes living down to depths of {{cvt. 600. Parabembras. curta. (2022)
  10. {{FishBase. Parabembras. robinsoni. (2022)

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