{{Short description|Genus of fishes}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Naturalis Biodiversity Center - RMNH.ART.156 - Sirembo imberbis (Temminck and Schlegel) - Kawahara Keiga - 1823 - 1829 - Siebold Collection - pencil drawing - water colour.jpeg | image_caption = ''Sirembo imberbis'' | taxon = Sirembo | authority = Bleeker, 1857 | type_species = ''Brotula imberbis'' | type_species_authority = Temminck & Schlegel, 1846<ref name = CoF>{{Cof record|genid=2425|title=''Sirembo''|access-date=14 July 2018}}</ref> | synonyms = *''Brotella'' <small>Kaup, 1858</small> *''Umalius'' <small>Herre & Herald, 1951</small> | synonyms_ref = <ref name = Nielsen2014/> }}
'''''Sirembo''''' is a genus of cusk-eels of the subfamily Neobythitinae, family Ophidiidae, which are found in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. The species in this genus have a rather robust body with the dorsal fin originating over vertebrae 1–5. The head and bod are completely covered in scales, they have large eyes which are almost equal in diameter to the length of snout, the pelvic fins have two rays which are joined together within an area of tough skin, They have a short spine on the operculum which does not extend to the posterior edge of the head. Their coloration is variable but almost all species have black spots or eyespots on the dorsal fin, sometimes both, while the middle part of the anal fin frequently has a black band. The body and/or head are marked with diagonal or horizontal dark stripes or horizontal rows of quite large dusky spots.<ref name = FoA>{{cite web | author = Dianne J. Bray | title = ''Sirembo'' | work = Fishes of Australia | accessdate = 14 Jul 2018 | url = https://fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/genus/1415 | publisher = Museums Victoria}}</ref>
The generic name is derived for the common name for the golden cusk in Japanese, ''sirembo''.<ref name = ETYFish>{{cite web | url = http://www.etyfish.org/ophidiiformes1/ | title = Order OPHIDIIFORMES: Families CARAPIDAE and OPHIDIIDAE | accessdate = 12 July 2018 | publisher = Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara | author1 = Christopher Scharpf | author2 = Kenneth J. Lazara | name-list-style = amp | date = 21 March 2018 | work = The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database}}</ref>
==Species== There are currently 5 recognized species in this genus, although FishBase only recognizes 3:<ref name = FishBase>{{FishBase genus|genus=Sirembo|month=February|year=2018}}</ref> * ''Sirembo amaculata'' <small>Cohen & J. G. Nielsen, 1982</small> (Lined cusk) <ref name=Nielsen2014/> * ''Sirembo imberbis'' <small>Temminck & Schlegel, 1846</small> (Golden cusk) * ''Sirembo jerdoni'' <small>F. Day, 1888</small> (Brown-banded cusk-eel) * ''Sirembo metachroma'' <small>Cohen & C. R. Robins, 1986</small> (Chameleon cusk) * ''Sirembo wami'' <small>J. G. Nielsen, Schwarzhans & Uiblein, 2014</small> <ref name=Nielsen2014>{{cite journal |author=Nielsen, J.G. |author2=Schwarzhans, W. |author3=Uiblein, F. |name-list-style=amp |year=2014 |title=Review of the Indo-West Pacific ophidiid genera ''Sirembo'' and ''Spottobrotula'' (Ophidiiformes, Ophidiidae), with description of three new species. |journal=Marine Biology Research |volume=11 |issue=2 |pages=113–134 |doi=10.1080/17451000.2014.904885|url=https://curis.ku.dk/ws/files/154749599/Nielsen_2015_Review_of_the_Indo_West.pdf }}</ref>
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Category:Ophidiidae Category:Taxa named by Pieter Bleeker
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