Parabembras
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| Family: | Parabembridae Fowler, 1938
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| Genus: | Parabembras Bleeker, 1874
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Parabembras is a genus of sprat-like flatheads, the only genus in the family Parabembridae. The species in this genus are only known from the western Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean.
Species
The currently recognized species in this genus are:[1] with a new species described in 2018.[2]
- Parabembras curta (Temminck & Schlegel, 1843) - northwestern Pacific
- Parabembras robinsoni Regan, 1921 (African deep-water flathead) - southwestern Indian Ocean
- Parabembras multisquamata Kai, Fricke, 2018 - southwestern Pacific and the Philippines
References
- Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2012). "Parabembridae" in FishBase. December 2012 version.
- ^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). Species of Parabembras in FishBase. December 2012 version.
- ^ "Taxonomic review of the deep water flathead genus Parabembras with description of the new species Parabembras multisquamata from the western Pacific Ocean". Zookeys. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
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