Maxillicosta

Maxillicosta is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes, belonging to the subfamily Neosebastinae, the gurnard scorpionfishes, part of the family Scorpaenidae. They are native to the eastern Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean.

==Taxonomy== Maxillicosta was first described as a genus in 1935 by the Australian ichthyologist Gilbert Percy Whitley when he described M. scabriceps, with its type locality given as Kingscote on Kangaroo Island in South Australia, as a monotypic genus but he also explicitly designated M scabriceps as its type species. The name of the genus Maxillicosta was chosen by Whitley as the type species had a scaleless maxilla crossed by five ridges, costa in contract to the scaled maxilla of Neosebastes.