{{Short description|Genus of fishes}} {{Automatic_taxobox | image = Hozukius emblemarius.jpg | image_caption = ''Hozukius emblemarius'' | taxon = Hozukius | display_parents = 3 | authority = Matsubara, 1934 | type_species = ''Helicolenus emblemarius'' | type_species_authority = Jordan & Starks 1904<ref name = CofF>{{Cof genus | genus = Hozukius | access-date = 31 October 2021}}</ref> }}
'''''Hozukius''''' is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the subfamily Sebastinae within the family Scorpaenidae. They are native to the northwestern Pacific Ocean.
==Taxonomy== ''Hozukius'' was described as a monotypic genus in 1934 by the Japanese ichthyologist Kiyomatsu Matsubara with ''Helicolenus emblemarius'' which had been described by David Starr Jordan and Edith Chapin Starks in 1904 with its type locality given as Okinose, near Misaki in Japan its only species.<ref name = CofF2>{{Cof family | family = Sebastidae| access-date = 1 November 2021}}</ref><ref name = CofF/> A second species, ''H. guyotensis'', was described in 1975.<ref name = Fishbase>{{FishBase genus | genus = Hozukius | month = June | year = 2021}}</ref> The genus name is probably derived from ''hozuki'', the Japanese name for the flowering plant ''Physalis alkekengi'', which has bright red or orange fruit and is a traditional component of Japanese Buddhist culture, its bright-red colour being similar to that of ''H. emblemarius''.<ref name = ETYFish>{{cite web | url = https://etyfish.org/perciformes8/ | title = Order Perciformes (Part 8): Suborder Scorpaenoidei: Families Sebastidae, Setarchidae and Neosebastidae | work = The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database | editor1= Christopher Scharpf | editor2 = Kenneth J. Lazara | name-list-style = amp |date = 22 May 2021 | access-date = 1 November 2021 | publisher = Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara}}</ref>
==Species== There are currently two recognised species in this genus:<ref name = Fishbase/> * ''Hozukius emblemarius'' <small>(D. S. Jordan & Starks, 1904)</small> * ''Hozukius guyotensis'' <small>Barsukov & Fedorov, 1975</small>
==Characeristics== ''Hozukius'' rockfishes have maximum standard lengths of {{cvt|45|to|59|cm}}.<ref name = Fishbase/> They have 12 spines in the dorsal fin and 26 vertebrae, they have a swim bladder and the intraorbital bone is firmly connected to the upper margin of the preoperculum.<ref name = I&A >{{cite journal | author1 = Ishida, M. | author2 = K. Amaoka | name-list-style = amp | year = 1986 | title = ''Sebastiscus triacanthus'' Fowler a junior synonym of ''Hozukius emblemarius'' (Jordan et Starks) | journal = Japanese Journal of Ichthyology | volume = 33 | issue = 3 | pages = 323–325 | doi = 10.1007/BF02904170 | url = https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jji1950/33/3/33_3_323/_pdf}}</ref> They also have a deep body, three spines on lower margin of the eye and a truncate caudal fin.<ref name = Korea>{{cite journal | author1 = Jeong-Ho Park | author2 = Byoung-Sun Yoon | author3 = Myoung Ho Sohn | author4 = Young-Min Choi | author5 = Jin-Koo Kim | name-list-style = and | year = 2014 | title = First Record of Hozukius emblemarinus (Scorpaeniformes: Scorpaenidae) from the East Sea, Korea | journal = Korean Journal of Ichthyology | volume=26 | issue = 3 | pages = 239–242 | url = https://www.researchgate.net/publication/268524029}}</ref>
==Distribution and habitat== Hozukius fishes are only found in the northwestern Pacific Ocean. ''H. emblemarius'' around Japan and ''H. guyotensis'' on the Emperor Seamounts. They are bathydemersal and demersal fish which are found as deep as {{cvt|1000|m}}.<ref name = Fishbase/> There is one record of ''H. emblemaris'' from Korean waters of the Sea of Japan. Both species are described as being rare.<ref name = Korea/>
==References== {{Reflist}} {{Sebastidae}} {{Taxonbar|from=Q1046754}}
Category:Sebastini Category:Marine fish genera Category:Taxa named by Kiyomatsu Matsubara