Genus Ocosia Jordan & Starks, 1904

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ocosia Jordan, D.S. & Starks, E.C. 1904. A review of the scorpaenid fishes of Japan. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 27(1351): 91-175 figs 1-21 pls 1-2 [dated 1903] [162].

  Type species:

   Ocosia vespa Jordan & Starks, 1904 by original designation.

 

Introduction

The genus was revised by Poss & Eschmeyer (1975). Currently two species are known from Australia, one tentatively identified as Ocosia zapolita from the North West Shelf, WA and a second from the continental slope off southeastern Queensland (Johnson et al. (2010) similar to and possibly identical to Ocosia apia Poss & Eschmeyer, 1975.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Tropical, Indo-west Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Province (2), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory

General References

Johnson, J.W. 2010. Fishes of the Moreton Bay Marine Park and adjacent continental shelf waters, Queensland, Australia. pp. 299-353 in Davie, P.J.F. & Phillips, J.A. Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Marine Biological Workshop, The Marine Fauna and Flora of Moreton Bay. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 54(3) [314]

Mandrytsa, S.A. 2001. Lateral Line System and Classification of Scorpaenoid Fishes (Scorpeaniformes: Scorpaenidei). Perm : Perm State Univ. Press pp. 1-393.

Poss, S.G. & Eschmeyer, W.N. 1975. The Indo-west Pacific scorpionfish genus Ocosia Jordan and Starks (Scorpaenidae, Tetraroginae), with description of three new species. Matsya 1: 1-18

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
	SCORPAENIFORMES	30-Dec-2014	ADDED	Dr Dianne Bray (NMV) Dr Doug Hoese (AM) Dr Matthew Lockett (AM)