Cociella martingomoni is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Platycephalidae, the flatheads. It is found in the Andaman Sea.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Scorpaeniformes |
| Family: | Platycephalidae |
| Genus: | Cociella |
| Species: | C. martingomoni
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| Cociella martingomoni | |
Taxonomy
editCociella martingomoni was first formally described in 2020 by Hisashi Imamura and Charatsee Aungtonya with its type locality given as the Andaman Sea to the south of Phuket.[1] The name of this species honours the Australian ichthyologist Dr. Martin F. Gomon, the senior curator of fishes at the Museum of Victoria in recognition of his contribution to ichthyology.[2]
Description
editCociella martingomoni has 8 spines in the first dorsal fin with an additional very small separate spine to the front of it while the second dorsal fin has 11 soft rays, as does the anal fin. It has a large head with between 4 and 7 suborbital spines. This species has a high number of pectoral fin rays in comparison to its congeners, other than the brownmargin flathead (C. hutchinsi), with 21 to 23. The head and body are covered in numerous small brownish spots and there may or may not be brown spots on the upper caudal fin. The standard lengths of the type and paratypes varies from 149.8 to 160.4 mm (5.90 to 6.31 in).[3]
Distribution
editCociella martingomoni has only been recorded from the eastern Indian Ocean in the Andaman Sea.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Cociella". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 4 July 2022.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara, eds. (7 December 2021). "Order Perciformes (Part 11): Suborder Platycephaloidei: Families Bembridae, Parabembridae, Hoplichthyidae, Platycephalidae and Plectrogeniidae". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 6 July 2022.
- ^ Imamura, Hisashi (2020). "A new species of the genus Cociella Whitley, 1940 (SCORPAENIFORMES: PLATYCEPHALIDAE) from the Andaman Sea". Phuket Marine Biological Center Research Bulletin. 77: 2531. doi:10.14456/PMBCRB.2020.3. Retrieved 4 July 2022.