Bembradium

Bembradium is a genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Plectrogeniidae, the stinger flatheads. These fishes are found in the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean.

==Taxonomy== Bembradium was first proposed as a genus by the American ichthyologist Charles Henry Gilbert in 1905 when he described the new species, Bembradium roseum, from the Pailolo channel in the Hawaiian Islands. He designated his new species as the type species of the new monotypic genus. Subsequently the French ichthyologists Pierre Fourmanoir and Jacques Rivaton described a second species, B. furici, from the Isle of Pines in the Province Sud on Grande Terre in New Caledonia in 1979. In 2019 a third species was described from the Andaman Sea. In the 5th edition of Fishes of the World the genus is classified within the family Bembridae, the deep water flatheads. More recent studies suggest that this genus actually belongs to the family Plectrogeniidae, and it is now treated as such.