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] | |
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Longspine Combfish (Z. latipinnis) | |
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Subfamily: | Zaniolepidinae |
Genus: | Zaniolepis Girard, 1858 |
Species
The currently recognized species in this genus are:[4]
Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
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Zaniolepis frenata C. H. Eigenmann & R. S. Eigenmann, 1889 | shortspine combfish | Pacific Ocean southern Oregon, USA to central Baja California, Mexico. | |
Zaniolepis latipinnis Girard, 1858 | longspine combfish | northeast Pacific Ocean | |
References
- 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.
- "Scorpaeniformes". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved November 15, 2012.
- 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
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). Species of Zaniolepis in FishBase. December 2012 version.
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