{{Short description|Genus of fishes}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Bembradium roseum.jpg | image_caption = ''B. roseum'' | taxon = Bembradium | authority = C. H. Gilbert, 1905 | type_species = '' Bembradium roseum'' | type_species_authority = Gilbert, 1905<ref name = CofF>{{Cof family|family=Plectrogeniidae|access-date=30 June 2022}}</ref> }}
'''''Bembradium''''' is a genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Plectrogeniidae, the stinger flatheads. These fishes are found in the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean.
==Taxonomy== ''Bembradium'' was first proposed as a genus by the American ichthyologist Charles Henry Gilbert in 1905 when he described the new species, ''Bembradium roseum'', from the Pailolo channel in the Hawaiian Islands. He designated his new species as the type species of the new monotypic genus. Subsequently the French ichthyologists Pierre Fourmanoir and Jacques Rivaton described a second species, ''B. furici'', from the Isle of Pines in the Province Sud on Grande Terre in New Caledonia in 1979. In 2019 a third species was described from the Andaman Sea.<ref name = CofF/><ref name = CofF2>{{Cof genus|genus=Nembradium|access-date=30 June 2022}}</ref> In the 5th edition of ''Fishes of the World'' the genus is classified within the family Bembridae, the deep water flatheads.<ref name = Nelson5>{{cite book |title=Fishes of the World |edition=5th |author1=J. S. Nelson |author2=T. C. Grande |author3=M. V. H. Wilson |year=2016 |pages=467–495 |publisher=Wiley |ISBN=978-1-118-34233-6 |url=https://sites.google.com/site/fotw5th/ |access-date=2022-06-30 |archive-date=2019-04-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190408194051/https://sites.google.com/site/fotw5th/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> More recent studies suggest that this genus actually belongs to the family Plectrogeniidae, and it is now treated as such.<ref name = CofF/><ref name="CofF3">{{Cof family|family=Plectrogeniidae|access-date=3 August 2025}}</ref>
===Species=== There are currently 3 recognized species in this genus:<ref name = Fishbase>{{FishBase genus | genus = Bembradium| month = February | year = 2022}}</ref> * ''Bembradium furici'' <small>Fourmanoir & Rivaton, 1979</small> * ''Bembradium magnoculum'' <small>Kishimoto, Kawai, Tashiro & Aungtonya, 2019</small><ref name = CofF2/> * ''Bembradium roseum'' <small>C. H. Gilbert, 1905</small>
===Etymology=== The genus name means "like ''Bembras''", the type genus of Bembridae.<ref name = ETYFish>{{cite web | url = https://etyfish.org/perciformes11/ | title = Order Perciformes (Part 11): Suborder Platycephaloidei: Families Bembridae, Parabembridae, Hoplichthyidae, Platycephalidae and Plectrogeniidae | work = The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database | editor1= Christopher Scharpf | editor2 = Kenneth J. Lazara | name-list-style = amp |date = 7 December 2021 | access-date = 26 May 2022 | publisher = Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara}}</ref>
==Characteristics== ''Bembradium'' is diagnosed as a genus by the front part of the head behind very flattened, becoming less flattened to the rear. The lower jaw does not protrude. The suborbital ridge bears many spines. The origin of the pectoral fins is behind a vertical line through the origin of the pelvic fins. The lateral line runs through the centre of the flanks. The scales on the body are large.<ref name = Kishimoto2019>{{cite journal | author1 = Saki Kishimoto | author2 = Toshio Kawai | author3 = Fumihito Tashiro | author4= Charatsee Aungtonya | name-list-style = and | year = 2019 | title = Description of a new species of Bembradium (Scorpaeniformes: Bembridae) from the Andaman Sea, Thailand | journal = Phuket Marine Biological Center Research Bulletin | volume =76 | pages = 9–17 | url = https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335570896_Description_of_a_new_species_of_Bembradium_Scorpaeniformes_Bembridae_from_the_Andaman_Sea_Thailand}}</ref> These are small fishes in which the maximum published standard length is around {{cvt|11.5|cm}}.<ref name = Fishbase/>
== Distribution and habitat== ''Bembradium'' stinger flatheads are found in the Indo-Pacific region from the Andaman Sea to Hawaii. They are found in deep water.<ref name = CofF2/><ref name = Kishimoto2019/>
==References== {{Reflist}}
{{Taxonbar|from=Q1592803}} Category:Taxa named by Charles Henry Gilbert Category:Perciformes genera