Bandfish

For the family of gastropods also called Cepolidae from the superfamily Helicoidea, see Cepolidae (gastropods).

Bandfishes
Cepola haastii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Perciformes
Superfamily:	Cepoloidea
Family:	Cepolidae
Genera
Acanthocepola Cepola Owstonia Pseudocepola Sphenanthias See text for species.

Bandfishes are a family, Cepolidae, of perciform fishes. They are native to the Atlantic seaboard of Europe and the West Pacific, including New Zealand. They dig burrows in sandy or muddy seabed and eat zooplankton.^[1]

The oldest recipe by a named author involves the preparation of a bandfish. The original recipe book, by Mithaecus, is now lost, but the recipe itself survives thanks to being quoted in the Deipnosophistae.^[2][3]

Species

There are 23 species in five genera, according to FishBase:^[1]

• Genus Acanthocepola
  • Yellow-spotted bandfish, Acanthocepola abbreviata (Valenciennes, 1835)
  • Indian bandfish, Acanthocepola indica (Day, 1888)
  • Red-spotted bandfish, Acanthocepola krusensternii (Temminck & Schlegel, 1845)
  • Black-spot bandfish, Acanthocepola limbata (Valenciennes, 1835)
• Genus Cepola
  • Cepola australis Ogilby, 1899
  • Cepola haastii (Hector, 1881)
  • Cepola macrophthalma (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Cepola pauciradiata Cadenat, 1950
  • Cepola schlegelii Bleeker, 1854
• Genus Owstonia
  • Owstonia dorypterus (Fowler, 1934)
  • Owstonia grammodon (Fowler, 1934)
  • Owstonia maccullochi Whitley, 1934
  • Owstonia macrophthalmus (Fourmanoir, 1985)
  • Owstonia nigromarginatus (Fourmanoir, 1985)
  • Owstonia pectinifer (Myers, 1939)
  • Owstonia sarmiento Liao, Reyes & Shao, 2009^[4]
  • Owstonia simoterus (Smith, 1968)
  • Owstonia tosaensis Kamohara, 1934
  • Owstonia totomiensis Tanaka, 1908
  • Owstonia weberi (Gilchrist, 1922)
• Genus Pseudocepola
  • Pseudocepola taeniosoma Kamohara, 1935
• Genus Sphenanthias
  • Sphenanthias sibogae Weber, 1913

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2010). "Cepolidae" in FishBase. February 2010 version.
2. ^ Dalby, Andrew (2003). Food in the ancient world from A to Z. Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England: Routledge. pp. 79, 220. ISBN 0-4152-3259-7. 
3. ^ Dalby, Andrew (1996). Siren Feasts. Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England: Routledge. pp. 109–110. ISBN 0-4151-5657-2. 
4. ^ Yun-Chih Liao, Rodolfo B. Reyes Jr. and Kwang-Tsao Shao (2009). "A new bandfish, Owstonia sarmiento (Pisces: Perciformes: Cepolidae: Owstoniinae), from the Philippines with a key to species of the genus". The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 57 (2): 521–525.