Zaniolepis

Zaniolepis is a genus of scorpaeniform fish native to the eastern Pacific Ocean. Z. frenata is known to have been a source of food to the Native American inhabitants of San Nicolas Island off the coast of southern California, United States during the Middle Holocene.[3]

Zaniolepis
Temporal range: Pleistocene to Present[1]
Longspine Combfish (Z. latipinnis)
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Zaniolepidinae
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Zaniolepis

Girard, 1858

Species

The currently recognized species in this genus are:[4]

ImageScientific nameCommon NameDistribution
Zaniolepis frenata C. H. Eigenmann & R. S. Eigenmann, 1889shortspine combfishPacific Ocean southern Oregon, USA to central Baja California, Mexico.
Zaniolepis latipinnis Girard, 1858longspine combfishnortheast Pacific Ocean

References

  1. Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "A compendium of fossil marine animal genera". Bulletins of American Paleontology. 364: 560. Archived from the original on July 23, 2011. Retrieved 2009-02-27.
  2. "Scorpaeniformes". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved November 15, 2012.
  3. Vellanoweth, R. L. & Erlandson, J. M. (1999): Middle Holocene Fishing and Maritime Adaptations at CA-SNI-161, San Nicolas Island, California. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology, 21(2): pp. 257-274
  4. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). Species of Zaniolepis in FishBase. December 2012 version.


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