Cepola
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Genus: | Cepola Linnaeus, 1764
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Cepola rubescens Linnaeus, 1764
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Taenia Ræse, 1793 (non Linnaeus, 1758: preoccupied) |
Cepola is a genus of marine fish in the bandfish family Cepolidae.[1] The name red bandfish is applied to all members of this genus, but particularly C. macrophthalma, and generally not C. australis, which is also known as the Australian bandfish.[2]
Five species are recognised, and there may be a sixth, as yet undescribed, from the waters near Bermuda.[3]
The oldest recorded recipe is for C. macrophthalma. The original recipe book, by Mithaecus, is now lost, but the recipe itself survives thanks to being quoted in the Deipnosophistae.[4][5]
Species
There are currently five recognized species in this genus:[2]
- Cepola australis J. D. Ogilby, 1899 (Australian bandfish)
- Cepola haastii (Hector, 1881)
- Cepola macrophthalma (Linnaeus, 1758) (Red bandfish)
- Cepola pauciradiata Cadenat, 1950
- Cepola schlegelii Bleeker, 1854
References
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- ^ "Cepola". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 10 November 2009.
- ^ a b Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Cepola". FishBase. February 2013 version.
- ^ Johnson, G. David; Smith-Vaniz, William F. (January 1987). "Redescription and Relationships of Parasphyraenops atrimanus Bean (Pisces: Serranidae), with Discussion of Other Bermudian Fishes Known Only from Stomach Contents". Bulletin of Marine Science. 40 (1): 48–58.
- ^ Dalby, Andrew (2003). Food in the ancient world from A to Z. Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England: Routledge. pp. 79, 220. ISBN 0-415-23259-7.
- ^ Dalby, Andrew (1996). Siren Feasts. Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England: Routledge. pp. 109–110. ISBN 0-415-15657-2.