Ctenopomichthys[1] is an extinct genus of marine scorpaeniform fish that inhabited the Paratethys Sea during the Miocene. It contains a single species, C. jemelka from the middle Miocene-aged Leitha Limestone of Saint Margarethen, Austria[2][3] (sometimes given as Sopron, Hungary).[4]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Scorpaeniformes |
| Genus: | †Ctenopomichthys Whitley, 1940 |
| Species: | †C. jemelka
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| †Ctenopomichthys jemelka (Heckel, 1856)
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It was initially named without description in 1849 by Johann Jakob Heckel as Pygaeus jemelka, before being officially described as Ctenopoma jemelka in 1856.[3][5] However, Ctenopoma was found to be preoccupied by an unrelated genus of freshwater fish (Ctenopoma), and the species was thus reclassfied into two different genera (Ctenopomichthys Whitley, 1940 and Jemelkia White & Moy-Thomas, 1940), with Ctenopomichthys being published just a month before Jemelkia.[4][6][7]
It was formerly placed in the Scorpaenidae,[8] but later studies have found it to lack distinguishing features of this family.[4]
See also
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References
edit- ^ "PBDB Taxon". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2024-06-27.
- ^ Schmid, Hanns Peter; Harzhauser, Mathias; Kroh, Andreas; Coric, Stjepan; Rögl, Fred; Schultz, Ortwin (2000). "Hypoxic Events on a Middle Miocene Carbonate Platform of the Central Paratethys (Austria, Badenian, 14 Ma)". Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien. Serie a für Mineralogie und Petrographie, Geologie und Paläontologie, Anthropologie und Prähistorie. 102: 1–49. ISSN 0255-0091. JSTOR 41702007.
- ^ a b Geology, British Museum (Natural History) Department of; Woodward, Arthur Smith (1901). Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History): Actinopterygian Teleostomi of the suborders Isospondyli (in part), Ostariophysi, Apodes, Percesoces, Hemibranchii, Acanthopterygii, and Anacanthini. order of the Trustees.
- ^ a b c Schultz, Ortwin (1991). "Der Nachweis von Scorpaena s. s. (Pisces, Teleostei) im Badenien von St. Margarethen, Burgenland, Österreich: Revision von Scorpaena prior Heckel in Heckel & Kner, 1861". Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien. Serie a für Mineralogie und Petrographie, Geologie und Paläontologie, Anthropologie und Prähistorie. 95: 127–177. ISSN 0255-0091. JSTOR 41701931.
- ^ Klasse, Akademie der Wissenschaften (Wien) Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche (1856). Denkschriften (in German). Springer.
- ^ The Zoological Record: Being Records of Zoological Literature. J. Van Voorst. 1941.
- ^ Neave S.A. (1950). Nomenclator Zoologicus 1936-1945. Vol. 5C. p. 63.
- ^ Bundesanstalt (Austria), Geologische (1906). Jahrbuch: General Register (in German).
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