{{Short description|Genus of fishes}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2024}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = EboshiKG.jpg | image_caption = ''Ebosia bleekeri'' | taxon = Ebosia | authority = D. S. Jordan & Starks, 1904<ref name = CofF>{{Cof family | family = Scorpaenbidae | access-date = 2 March 2022}}</ref> | type_species =''Pterois bleekeri'' | type_species_authority = Döderlein, 1884<ref name = CofF/> }}
'''''Ebosia''''' is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Scorpaenidae, the scorpionfishes. They are known as '''falcate lionfishes'''. They are native to the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
==Taxonomy== ''Ebosia'' was described as a genus in 1904 by the American ichthyologists David Starr Jordan and Edwin Chapin Starks in 1904 with ''Pterois bleekeri'', which had been described in 1884 by Ludwig Heinrich Philipp Döderlein from Tokyo, as the type species.<ref name = CofF/> This genus is classified within the tribe Pteroini of the subfamily Scorpaeninae within the family Scorpaenidae.<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=468–475 |publisher=Wiley |isbn=978-1-118-34233-6 |url=https://sites.google.com/site/fotw5th/ |access-date=2 March 2022 |archive-date=8 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190408194051/https://sites.google.com/site/fotw5th/ |url-status=dead}}</ref> The genus name is a latinisation of ''eboshi'', a type of helmet which bears some resemblance to the parietal crests shown by the males in this genus.<ref name = ETYFish>{{cite web |url=https://etyfish.org/perciformes9/ |title=Order Perciformes (Part 9): Suborder Scorpaenoidei: Family Scorpaenidae |work=The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database |editor1=Christopher Scharpf |editor2=Kenneth J. Lazara |name-list-style=amp |date=2 October 2021 |access-date=2 March 2022 |publisher=Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara}}</ref>
==Species== There are currently 4 recognized species in this genus:<ref name = Fishbase>{{FishBase genus|genus=Ebosia|month=February|year=2022}}</ref> {| class="wikitable" |- ! Image !! Scientific name !! Common name !! Distribution |- |120px || ''Ebosia bleekeri'' <small>(Döderlein, 1884)</small> ||Bleeker's lionfish || southern Japan to Hong Kong, Also from Australia, Taiwan, China and Korea |- | || ''Ebosia falcata'' <small>Eschmeyer & Rama Rao, 1978</small> || Falcate lionfish ||Somalia, Pakistan and the west coast of India and off the Andaman Sea coast of Thailand. |- | || ''Ebosia saya'' <small>Matsunuma & Motomura, 2014</small><ref name="Matsunuma2014">{{cite journal |author1=Matsunuma, M. |author2=Motomura, H. |name-list-style=& |year=2014 |title=A new species of scorpionfish, ''Ebosia saya'' (Scorpaenidae: Pteroinae), from the western Indian Ocean and notes on fresh coloration of ''Ebosia falcata'' |journal=Ichthyological Research |volume=62 |issue=3 |pages=293–312 |doi=10.1007/s10228-014-0445-4 }}</ref> || Saya lionfish || Saya de Malha Bank |- | || ''Ebosia vespertina'' <small>Matsunuma & Motomura, 2015</small> <ref name=Matsunuma2015>{{cite journal |author1=Matsunuma, M. |author2=Motomura, H. |name-list-style=& |year=2015 |title=A new species of scorpionfish, ''Ebosia vespertina'' (Scorpaenidae: Pteroinae), from the southwestern Indian Ocean |journal=Ichthyological Research |volume=63 |issue=1 |pages=110–120 |doi=10.1007/s10228-015-0479-2 }}</ref> ||Western falcate lionfish ||Mozambique and the east coast of South Africa, Madagascar |- |}
==Characteristics== ''Ebosia'' lionfishes are characterised by having the bases of the spines on the nuchal, parietal and coronal bones being continuous with the parietal spine being longer and, in males, creates a slender, bony crest.<ref name="Matsunuma2014"/> These lionfishes vary in size from a maximum published standard length of {{cvt|8.7|cm}} in ''E. falcata'' to {{cvt|22|cm}} in ''E. bleekeri''.<ref name = Fishbase/>
==Distribution and habitat== ''Ebosia'' lionfishes are found in the Indo-Pacific from the eastern coast of Africa between Somalia and South Africa across the Indian Ocean and eastwards into the Pacific Ocean as far as eastern Australia, north to Japan, Korea and China.<ref name = Fishbase/> These fishes are found where there is a sandy or muddy substrates at depths of normally less than {{cvt|100|m}}.<ref name=Matsunuma2015/>
==Biology== Ebosia lionfishes are, like other scorpionfishes, predatory. ''E. bleekeri'' is known to feed on small fishes and crustaceans.<ref name = Saltcorner>{{cite web |url=http://www.saltcorner.com/AquariumLibrary/browsespecies.php?CritterID=1358&filter=0 |title=''Ebosia bleekeri'' (Doderlein, 1884) Bleeker's Lionfish |author=Bob Goemans |year=2012 |work=Saltcorner Fish Library |access-date=2 March 2022 |publisher=Bob Goemans}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
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Category:Pteroini Category:Venomous fish Category:Marine fish genera Category:Taxa named by David Starr Jordan Category:Taxa named by Edwin Chapin Starks